Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.
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Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.
Chicago, Illinois
This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.
Chicago, Illinois
The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.
Chicago, Illinois
This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Chicago, Illinois
In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.
Salem, Massachusetts
A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.
Medford, Massachusetts
Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.
Boston, Massachusetts
The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.
Providence, Rhode Island
Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."
Providence, Rhode Island
Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Atlanta, Georgia
An old bank vault in Atlanta is now the eternal shrine to the King of Rock and Roll.
Johns Creek, Georgia
The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.
Corbin, Kentucky
The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Wytheville, Virginia
The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Cleveland, South Carolina
According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.
Knoxville, Tennessee
This video store is a horror buff's dream.