Places Edited by Allison Meier

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

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

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.