This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.