Places The Albatross Wants to Go

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

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.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.