Places kerryymm Wants to Go

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Communism's topsy-turvy effect on Poland has been brought to life in this wacky tourist trap.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

This beautiful fountain was sculpted by a female artist who was ahead of her time.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This tiny getaway tucked away in an uninhabited Scottish valley isn't your ordinary teahouse.

This mysterious and creepy location instills a strong sense of foreboding in all visitors.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

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

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

This stately mansion, built in 1787 by America's first Secretary of the Navy, is rumored to be one of the most haunted buildings in Washington, DC.

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

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."