Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."