Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The oldest house of worship in Palm Beach has a wonderful tropical garden.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

It might look like just a pile of sticks—because it is. But there's a dark history to how this stack got its start.

Rubbing salt on this small stone dog is said to make wishes come true.

Greenery covers the face of a gently-dripping waterfall deep in the mountains of central Sardinia.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

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

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.