Places CuriousMichele Wants to Go

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.