A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

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

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

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

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