Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

These small house replicas have stood proudly since the 1950s, even as the property has changed hands.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

The history and future of cannabis.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.