Places abbynormal Wants to Go

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.