Places Jess the Mess Wants to Go

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

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

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

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

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.