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One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Locals transformed this Canadian evergreen into a secret hangout with spectacular views of Vancouver's skyline.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.