Hørve, Denmark
Dragsholm Castle
Considered one of the most haunted places in Europe, this 800-year-old castle was home to noble prisoners.
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Hørve, Denmark
Considered one of the most haunted places in Europe, this 800-year-old castle was home to noble prisoners.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Manchester, New Hampshire
One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Halifax, England
This centuries-old mansion was the home of the noted 19th-century diarist Anne Lister (aka “Gentleman Jack”).
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.
Neece, Texas
It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.
Warsaw, Poland
After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.
London, England
This site was once home to Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
Cologny, Switzerland
Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.
North Bennington, Vermont
The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."
Bangor, Maine
This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."
Bran, Romania
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."
Whitby, England
The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.
Phillipsville, California
A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.
Nikko, Japan
This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Alnwick, England
This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.
New York, New York
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
Paris, France
The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.
Flateyri, Iceland
The oldest bookstore in Iceland.
New York, New York
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.