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An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

Tucked away amongst townhomes lies a restored, early 20th-century tea house and garden, the only remains of a historic estate.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.