This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.