A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

Amphibious mascots display a quirkier side to this luxury hotel's rich history.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.