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

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.