Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eastern State Penitentiary
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.
Syosset, New York
An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.
Centerport, New York
An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
Bellerose, New York
The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.
Kings Park, New York
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
Brentwood, New York
A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
Providence, Rhode Island
Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.
New Haven, Connecticut
A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.
Staten Island, New York
Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
England
A historic house left in "dramatic still life."
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.
Glasgow, Scotland
"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."