Places Phantasmagoria Wants to Go

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.