The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

This Connecticut video store has a vast and varied archive that contains everything from 'Koyaanisqatsi' to 'The King's Speech.'

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.