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From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.