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Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

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

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.

The site of a strange super top-secret military experiment during WWII on a remote Canadian lake.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.