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Clifton's Gates of Hell

Clifton, New Jersey

Clifton's Gates of Hell

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

Hellam Township
Permanently Closed

Hellam, Pennsylvania

Hellam Township

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Penn Hills Resort
Permanently Closed

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Penn Hills Resort

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

Shades of Death Road

Independence Township, New Jersey

Shades of Death Road

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

As seen in March of 2017.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Giant Ants

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

These train cars were converted into bars and hotel rooms.

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre Abandoned Train Station

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

Where Agloe would have been on a map.

Roscoe, New York

Agloe, New York

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

 Craig-E-Clair Castle

Roscoe, New York

Craig-E-Clair Castle

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Madison Boulder Natural Area in Madison, New Hampshire, USA

Madison, New Hampshire

Madison Boulder

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Bradford College period facade (via This Place I Know)

Haverhill, Massachusetts

Bradford College

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

Birth Home of Bette Davis

Lowell, Massachusetts

Bette Davis House

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

"A Very Still Life" by Jack Kevorkian
Permanently Closed

Watertown, Massachusetts

Art of Jack Kevorkian

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Sign across the street from the house

Hancock, Maine

Pet Sematary Filming Sites

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Grave of Sarah Ware

Bucksport, Maine

Grave of Sarah Ware

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

Bartlettyarns Mill

Harmony, Maine

Bartlettyarns Mill

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

Grave of Robert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler

Peabody, Massachusetts

Grave of the Boston Strangler

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

Danvers State Hospital
Permanently Closed

Danvers, Massachusetts

Danvers State Hospital

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

Exeter business taking advantage of the festivities

Exeter, New Hampshire

Exeter UFO Festival

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

Graves of Karen and Anethe Christensen

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Graves of the Smuttynose Murder Victims

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

Close-up of Mary Nasson's image on her grave

York, Maine

York Witch Grave

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

Inside the bathroom of the gas station

Lincoln, New Hampshire

Betty and Barney Hill Memorials

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The one-room building that is the Libby Museum

Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

Libby Museum

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

Grave of Claude Rains and his wife

Moultonborough, New Hampshire

Claude Rains Grave

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

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