Places wickedwildflower Wants to Go

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.