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A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Perhaps the most storied New York City eatery, Delmonico’s reshaped American restaurants.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

You can enjoy a (possibly haunted) stay at the medieval Norman castle that was once a favorite hunting lodge of King John.