Nashville, Tennessee
Old Tennessee State Prison
This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Nashville, Tennessee
This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.
Lafayette, Colorado
According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.
Boston, Massachusetts
The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.
Woburn, Massachusetts
This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.
Saugus, Massachusetts
The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.
Lynn, Massachusetts
At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.
Watertown, Massachusetts
The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."
Watertown, Massachusetts
Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.
Weston, Massachusetts
This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.
Salem, Massachusetts
Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.
Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Larvik, Norway
Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…
Freeport, Maine
This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.
Portland, Maine
Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.
Kennebunkport, Maine
The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.
York, Maine
New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.
Lowell, Massachusetts
Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.
Harvard, Massachusetts
A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.
Groton, Massachusetts
On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.