Places wednesday Wants to Go

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.