At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.