Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

Need a hardcopy of the 50-title Code of Federal Regulations? This is the place.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.