Bran, Romania
Bran Castle
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."
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Bran, Romania
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."
Brașov, Romania
A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.
San Diego, California
An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.
Pluckley, England
A woodland close to England's "most haunted village" has been the site of many unexplained events and deaths.
Maisons-Alfort, France
The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Cambridge, England
The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.
Bridgeport, California
Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.
Clearwater, Florida
An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.
Miami Beach, Florida
12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
DeLand, Florida
A spirited shopping experience.
Winter Park, Florida
Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.
Gotha, Florida
Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Ronda, Spain
An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.
Salamanca, Spain
A hidden medieval crypt where a famous legend says the devil used to teach black magic.
Lagoa, Portugal
Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Colares, Portugal
The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.
Lisbon, Portugal
An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
London, England
English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
Southwold, England
A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.