Places riedermarcus Wants to Go

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

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

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

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

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

Would you spend the night in Japan's deepest train station?

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

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.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare enter it.