The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

The haunting cadaver tomb of a famous French poet, playwright, and filmmaker.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A historic castle that served as a backdrop to part of an elaborate extraterrestrial hoax.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.