Weirton, West Virginia
Weirton
In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.
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Weirton, West Virginia
In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
Boston, Massachusetts
The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.
Worthington, Pennsylvania
Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.
Windber, Pennsylvania
An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.
Arthurdale, West Virginia
The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
St. Louis, Missouri
One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.
St. Louis, Missouri
This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.
St. Louis, Missouri
Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.
St. Louis, Missouri
The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.
Marceline, Missouri
A celebration of the animation wizard's childhood home and antique railroad memorabilia collection.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
St. Louis, Missouri
A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.
St. Louis, Missouri
This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Boston, Massachusetts
The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.
Boston, Massachusetts
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.