Places Edited by Jonathan Carey

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

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

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

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.