Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This stately clubhouse has showcased German-American culture for over a century.

This elaborate estate contains a stunning marble aviary, a sunken conservatory, and a magnificent music room with a two-story pipe organ.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

A tribute to one of the most famous cowboys on TV, and the consumerism that fueled his popularity.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A lost cemetery stands forgotten on a hilltop, known only to the older residents of Pomeroy.

An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.