Places Phantasmagoria Wants to Go

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Definitely not a clown bar.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.