This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."