Places Edited by Eric Grundhauser

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

The world's largest woodcarving collection includes dozens of Bible scenes and a wooden bestiary, all carved by one man.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.