Places downwardspiral Wants to Go

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

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

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

A cemetery that holds graves for the forgotten children of a burned orphanage.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.