This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

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

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

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

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

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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