This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

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

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

World's largest Christmas store.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

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

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.