The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.