Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

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

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.