Cults

Hub for hallucinogenic Amazon religion.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

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

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.