Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.