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Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

A remote, little-known natural arch in granite in the desert of northwestern Nevada.