World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.