One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

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

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.