Places gone2croatan Wants to Go

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

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Visit this small Mexican church to pray to a mushroom that is supposedly marked with the image of Christ.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

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

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

Underwater art project will double as a massive artificial coral reef to help regenerate the damaged ecosystem.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.