Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A yoga studio and venue for "chill-out parties" in a former chicken slaughterhouse.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

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

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.