The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

"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."

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."