Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.