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Michael K

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Every new place I visit is like checking off something from the world’s biggest scavenger hunt :)

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The roof where Peter was playing tennis.

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Monroeville Mall

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

George Romero Bust

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

George A. Romero Bust

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

Figure of Tor Johnson, from Plan 9 From Outer Space

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

The Living Dead Museum

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

Anniston Museum

Anniston, Alabama

Anniston Museum

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

Detail of the Steiner-Lobman and Teague Hardware Buildings in Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery, Alabama

Casket on the Steiner-Lobman Building

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

The bright green Astroturf that surrounds the graves of Hank Williams and his wife Audrey.

Montgomery, Alabama

Hank Williams's Gravesite

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Hank Williams' Death Car. (Creative Commons)

Montgomery, Alabama

Hank Williams' Death Car

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

 The Storyteller

Birmingham, Alabama

'The Storyteller'

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Reed Books was started in 1980.

Birmingham, Alabama

Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

Sloss Furnaces

Birmingham, Alabama

Sloss Furnaces

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Whaley House

San Diego, California

Whaley House

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor.

Long Beach, California

RMS Queen Mary

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The swing ride

Rock, West Virginia

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

These head markers were dug up and strewn around the cemetery.

Savannah, Georgia

Colonial Park Cemetery

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Fort Jefferson, moat and wall

Key West, Florida

Dry Tortugas

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

International Museum of Surgical Science

Chicago, Illinois

International Museum of Surgical Science

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Captain Janeway Monument

Bloomington, Indiana

Captain Janeway Statue

It's a unique monument honoring a great character who inspired a generation of young women to be more and pursue their dreams.

Hot Springs Mammoth Site

Hot Springs, South Dakota

Mammoth Site

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

King enjoying a cat nap

Center Point, Indiana

Exotic Feline Rescue Center

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

London, England

Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The last resting place... or is it?

Monroe, Connecticut

Grave of Ed and Lorraine Warren

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

Looking Glass Rock seen from the Looking Glass Rock Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Brevard, North Carolina

Looking Glass Rock

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Saint Lawrence Basilica in Asheville.

Asheville, North Carolina

Basilica of Saint Lawrence, Asheville

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Vintage D. Gottlieb & Co. game

Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville Pinball Museum

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

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