A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

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

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

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

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

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.