Places archampion Wants to Go

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.