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A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

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

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The loneliest island in New York.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.