Places nocturnalhecate Wants to Go

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This cabinet of curiosities contains many special and fantastical objects from around the world.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

A snapshot of Scottish folklore and magical heritage.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

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

This eccentric folly house was designed by Romanian thinker Bogdan-Petriceicu Hasdeu, with a helping hand from his deceased daughter's spirit.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.