In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."