Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.