Places The Albatross Wants to Go

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

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

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

This remote castle was built to be a wealthy businessman's palace of vice but is now simply a historic vacation cottage.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.