Places Edited by Rachel James

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

Glacial lake that mysteriously empties itself every year.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.

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

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."