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A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

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.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.