An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.