Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Shrine of Saint John Neumann
The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.
Yeadon, Pennsylvania
America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.
Dawson, Pennsylvania
A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
Preston, Connecticut
Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.
Newtown, Connecticut
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.