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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.

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

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

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

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

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

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.