95 Items Tagged

Occult

Path leading up to the Pyramid

Rapa Pyramid

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

Bolivia's Witch Market

La Paz, Bolivia

Bolivia's Witch Market

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Voodoo artifacts at New Orleans' Historic Voodoo Museum.

9 Sacred and Superstitious Voodoo Sites You Can Visit Today

Where to pick up fetishes, voodoo dolls, animal bones, hexes, and curses.

Molly McBride Jacobson October 20, 2016

Illustration by Miss Alice Heighes Donlevy of the "Secret Society Buildings of New Haven," with the former Skull & Bones headquarters at left center (circa 1869-1903).

7 Not-So-Secret Homes of Super Secret Societies

The clandestine corners of the world where the occult lives.

Cynthia Pelayo October 1, 2016

6 Dark Places Aleister Crowley Performed His Particular Brand of Magick

A guide to traveling with "the wickedest man in the world."

Molly McBride Jacobson September 22, 2016

Monticello, Utah

Home of Truth

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

The jester-hatted occult equinox cow, announcing spring.

The Demonic Rainbow Cow Announcing Spring’s Arrival

The mysterious shape appears only twice a year, on the third floor of the eccentric Lapham-Patterson House.

Cara Giaimo March 21, 2016

Biddulph Grange

Biddulph, England

Biddulph Grange

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

The History and Uses of the Magical Mandrake, According to Modern Witches

Angelica Calabrese January 12, 2016

Meet a Master Tarot Card Designer From Milan, Birthplace of Tarot

Lakshmi Ramgopal December 22, 2015

Baltimore, Maryland

Ouija 7-Eleven

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The Unmasking of a 19th Century Occult Imposter

J. Barton Scott August 20, 2015

LOST: The Skull of Nosferatu's Director

Sarah Laskow July 15, 2015

Sex, Drugs, and Broomsticks: The Origins of the Iconic Witch

Why do witches ride brooms? Buckle up.

Dylan Thuras October 23, 2014

Kazakhstan and the Illuminati in an Unfinished Metropolis

Darmon Richter October 8, 2014

36 Blythe Road, the former site of the London Order of the Golden Dawn Temple.

London, England

36 Blythe Road

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

Boleskine House, photographed in 1912.

Foyers, Scotland

Boleskine House

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

Clootie Well

Munlochy, Scotland

Clootie Well

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.