This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

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

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

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

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."