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One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.

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

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

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

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

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

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.