This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

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

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

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

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A wonderland of caves in eastern Iowa.

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.