Boston, Massachusetts
Great Boston Molasses Flood Plaque
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
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Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
Berkley, Massachusetts
A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.
District of Columbia
The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.
Brooklyn, New York
Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.
Seattle, Washington
A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.
Beaufort, North Carolina
Burial site more than 300 years old.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
New York, New York
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Richmond, Virginia
The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
New York, New York
A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.
Cassadaga, New York
Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.
New York, New York
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
New York, New York
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
New York, New York
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.