Hammonton, New Jersey
Amatol Ghost Town
In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.
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Hammonton, New Jersey
In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.
Cleveland, Ohio
A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.
Pasadena, California
Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.
Pasadena, California
Pasadena glamour turned government issue.
Santa Monica, California
One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.
Hartfield, England
The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.
Providence, Rhode Island
A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.
Sewanee, Tennessee
Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.
Cross Plains, Texas
The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.
Crockett, California
Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Pasadena, California
Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.
Heath, Massachusetts
A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.
Haverhill, Massachusetts
A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.
Gloucestershire, England
Home to the ancient Roman temple of a lesser-known Celtic god that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft.
Kaycee, Wyoming
The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.
Stokesay, England
A 13th-century fortified manor house that was once sieged during the English Civil War.
New Port Richey, Florida
These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.
Alltnacaillich, Scotland
Unusually, this ancient Iron Age broch has never been excavated.
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Once the longest swing bridge in Europe.
Rovereto, Italy
This war memorial holds the remains of around 20,000 World War I soldiers from both sides of the conflict.
Lerwick, Scotland
Legend has it that a Dutch fisherman lost control of his Shetland pony and tumbled from this cliff.
Miskolc, Hungary
This castle played host to the largest great hall found in medieval Central Europe.