Places kheimlicher Wants to Go

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

This rock in the middle of a river in Jayuya contains dozens of Pre-Columbian Taíno petroglyphs.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.