A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Peru’s only toy museum houses everything from pre-Inca whistles to lead soldiers and terrifying dolls.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

This overgrown Victorian chapel made of corrugated metal looks utterly out of place.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.