OTIS Visits

Here's where I archive all my visits to strange and macabre oddities all over the world. To see more general and random entries, check out the OTIS Blog.

2020

JAWS the Ride Shark

2019

Fright Before Christmas
Five Christmasy Oddities	Chester Village Cemetery	Large Marge's Grave	Ponemah Bog Pitcher Plants
Sleepy Hollow Experience in Sleepy Hollow	Salem 2019	Tom Devlin's Monster Museum	Herman Munster's Grave
King's Chapel Crypt	Bleeding Gravestone of Rocky Hill	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery	Great Jack O' Lantern Blaze
Monk Cave	Martha Dwight Vampire Grave	Witch Path	Muddy Brook Cemetery
Mary Bradbury Grave, Native American Mounds, Witch Stone	Lollipop Cemetery	Rainy Cemetery, Abandoned School, Giant Face	National Museum of Natural History
Archie the Giant Squid	Darwin's Specimens	Salem Halloween Museum	Medfield State Hospital
Foxborough State Hospital	My Mother The Wind	House on the Rock	Ravenous: The Enduring Legacy of Poe
Cimitieri des Rois	PsychoBarn II	Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem

2018

Bing Crosby's Homes	Prancer Filming Sites
Witch Cenotaph of Newbury	Forefathers Burying Ground	Buckland Museum of Witchcraft	MoPOP Scared to Death Exhibit
Lake View Cemetery	Shirley Jackson Sites	Wolf Death Site Marker	Old Dunstable Cemetery
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum (Wisconsin Dells)	Head of the Dusseldorf Vampire	Sleepy Hollow, Wyoming	Santa's Village
Sleepy Hollow, Illinois	Witch Caves	Dead Children's Playground	International Car Forest of the Last Church
Monsters of Walt Disney World	Disney World's Haunted Mansion	Breadsall Priory	UFO Monument Park
Bancroft Ruins on Gibbet Hill	Alien Abductee Graves	Return to Claude Rains's Grave	Grafton Ghost Town
Mars 2112	Girl in the Glass Coffin	George Eastman Suicide Note	Lady in White Filming Sites
Love Canal	Slaughtered Lamb Pub	Boyd-Parker Torture Tree	OTIS Miscellany VIII, Part 2
OTIS Miscellany VIII, Part 1	Odd Things My Wife's Seen III	Koreshan State Historic Park	Crystal Skull

2017

ICE! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	Lindow Man and Gebelein Man	Guillermo del Toro's Monsters
Friday the 13th Tower	Kinderhook Washington Irving Sites	Haunted Overload	"Let's Scare Jessica to Death" Sites
Centaur Excavations at Volos	Kirk Hammett's "It's Alive"	Irving Place and the Headless Horseman	Nightmare New England
Grave of Martha Keyes	Wax Museums of Salem	Monster Mini-Golf	Blocher Mausoleum
IT Filming Locales	Old Burying Ground of Halifax	Molly Maguire Monument	Houdini Bridge
Boonsboro Washington Monument	Black Aggie	Boonsboro Museum of History	Witch Trials Execution Site
Annabel Lee Tavern	Adams Memorial	H.H. Holmes Death Sites	Highgate Cemetery, Part II: East Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery, Part I: West Cemetery	British Museum	Willis Tower Ledge	Airport Ouija Board Exhibition
Salem in the Snow	Museum of Death	Fleming Cemetery from True Detective S1	Isaac Nelson Death Marker

2016

Robert Wadlow Sites
Morphy the Corpse Flower	Arm of St. Edmund	Abandoned House in Harper's Ferry	Bronner's Christmas Wonderland
Salem Pioneer Village 1630	Sleepy Hollow Experience at OSV	Salem Leftovers Fit for a Feast	Ed Gein Sites
PsychoBarn	Sodden in Salem	Beetle House	Witch of Newbury
Ray Bradbury's Waukegan	Hell, Michigan	In the Mouth of Madness Black Church	In the Mouth of Madness Asylum
Eternal Silence, Graceland Cemetery	Chillermania	Grave of Corey Haim	Ray Bradbury's Ravine

The Exorcist Steps Plaque	International Cryptozoology Museum III	Kneeland Maids Murder Artifacts	Boston Public Library's Poe Bust
Voodoo Museum	Goldfield Cemetery	Northern Exposure Town	Ram Tail Mill Ruins
Piasa Bird Mural	Henry Darger Room	OTIS Miscellany VII	Concrete City
Presidential Tombs and Death Relics	Rhyolite Ghost Town	OTIS Miscellany VI	Rocking Horse Graveyard
Montjuic Cemetery	Framis and Juncosa Tombs	Texas Chain Saw Massacre Gas Station	Kiss of Death Grave

2015

Salem Time Machine	Salem at Night	Salem at Random	Salem at Random II
Fort Monroe Pet Cemetery	Salem Haunted Happenings Parade	Jack Skellington Grave	The Horseman Restaurant
Devil's Hoofprints	Livermore Ghost Town	Last House on the Left Cemetery	Tomb of William Stoughton
Serpent and the Rainbow Film Site	Robert Johnson Crossroads	Monteverde Cloud Forest	Baltimore Poe Square Dedication
2015 Hampton Beach Sand Sculptures	Poás Volcano	Dog Chapel	Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
Clinton Train Tunnel	Patrick Dougherty's "Stickwork"	Diquis Spheres	The Vulcan Statue
Storm King Wall	Storm King Art Center	Arizona Meteor Crater	City Museum
Antelope Canyon	Grand Canyon Mid-Air Collision	Grand Canyon Temp Inversion	Birthplace of Kermit the Frog
Famous Graves 2	OTIS Miscellany V, Part I	OTIS Miscellany V, Part II	Eli Wallace's Horse Cemetery
Kiki Smith's "Lilith"	Extraterrestrial Highway (Part 1)	Area 51 (Part II)	Clown Motel and Tonopah Cemetery
Sloss Furnaces	Vatican City	Berkley Pit	Grave Memorial of John Symmes

2014

Ceres Bethel AME Church	Clement C. Moore House	ICE!: Frosty the Snowman
Grolier Club Poe Exhibition	Berlin Cathedral	Jordan's Furniture Enchanted Village	Ghosts of Jordan's Furniture Store
BPL Poe Bust Unveil	Graves of the Brothers Grimm	Sedlec Ossuary	Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery	St. Louis Vincent Price Sites	Woodchuck Cidery	OTIS in Berlin
Grave of John Bellairs	Our Salem Saturday	Boston Poe Statue	Ray Bradbury's Grave
Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis	Rock Creek Cemetery, DC	Open Haunted House	Fright Kingdom Buried Alive Simulator
Wild Bill's Nostalgia Center	Witch Grave of Yazoo City	St. Louis Exorcist Sites	Grave of Alferd Packer
Return to Hammond Castle	OTIS Miscellany IV	Return to Virginia Safari Park	Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road
Yellowstone National Park, Part I	Yellowstone National Park, Part II	Yellowstone National Park, Part III	Muriel Castanis's Corporate Goddesses
Children's Museum of Indianapolis	Leonardo the Dinosaur Mummy	St. Andrew Memorial Church and Cemetery	Georgia Guidestones
Kaskaskia Dragon	Johnny Cash Boyhood Home	Texas Chain Saw Massacre Cemetery	York's Wild Kingdom
Starship Pegasus	"Light Dispelling Darkness" Fountain	Grove Street Cemetery	Thetford Mines
Tewksbury Hospital Public Health Museum	Hannah Duston Statues	Clearwater Madonna	Pirates' House
Astronaut Graves	Vermont Toy Museum	The Shard	Brent Christensen's Ice Castles

2013

Bowman Mausoleum	Medfield State Hospital and Cemetery
Untermyer Park and Gardens	Edgar Allan Poe House, Baltimore	Salem 2013	Looking for the Lords of Salem
2013 Keene Pumpkin Festival	Jack O' Lantern Spectacular	Authors Ridge	Knight's Spider Web Farm
Poe Sites and Artifacts	Johnny Eck Sites and Artifacts	Hocus Pocus Filming Sites	Metropolitan State Hospital & Metfern Cemetery
Charles Dickens Mirror & Brattleboro Ghost Story	Milford Cemetery	Lovecraft's Providence and NecronomiCon	Bonaventure Cemetery
Ghost Town of Dana	Louise Bourgeois' Crouching Spider	H.P. Lovecraft Bust Unveiling	Parliament of Canada Grotesques
Rutland Prison Camp Ruins	Cabela's (Maine)	Star Wars Identities Exhibit	Hitler's Car
Old Quebec	Louise Bourgeois' Maman	Fairbanks Museum	OTIS Miscellany III
Padihershef Unwrapped	Bronze Fonz	International Cryptozoology Museum	Jordan's Furniture (Natick)
Dick Tracy Statue	Space Needle	Bloody Lincoln Flag	Edvard Munch's The Scream
Os Gemeos Boston Mural	Pa-Ib and the Echoes of Egypt	Ernest Borgnine Park	Mapparium
Will Ryman's Bird	Grave of a Mummified Carney	Cabela's (Connecticut)	Rock of Cashel
Blarney Stone	Bread and Puppet Museum	Patrick Dougherty's Room by Room	H.L. Hunley
New England Carousel Museum	Boneyard Beach	Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art	FAO Schwartz Flagship Store
American Museum of Natural History	Magnolia Cemetery	Discover the Dinosaurs	Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home

2012

Audubon Swamp Garden	Hopewell Rocks	Execution Site of the Gentleman Pirate	Unitarian Church Cemetery
Yankee Candle Village (Massachusetts)	Eternal Father of the Sea Chapel	Centralia, Pennsylvania	National Museum of Civil War Medicine
British Cemetery	OTIS Miscellany II	Kittery Trading Post	Alcatraz Island
Bellows Falls Petroglyphs	Salem 2012	Gilson Road Cemetery	Sleepy Hollow 2012
Van Cortland Manor Great Jack O' Lantern Blaze	Day of the Dead Altar	Lowell Cemetery	Ghostbusters Filming Sites
Lloyd Kauffman and Troma Studios	Rod Serling Sites	Haunted Barn Movie Museum	Rolling Hills Asylum
Ouija Board Grave	Skull and Noose of a Murderer	Wilder Brain Collection	Tahawus Ghost Town
Ripley's Shrunken Head Collection	Woodlawn Cemetery	Fox Sisters Monuments	Walloomsac Inn
Brooklyn Mummies	Jekyll and Hyde Club and Pub	Frankenstein Cliff	Ferncliff Cemetery
Edgar Allan Poe's New York	Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard	Granby Oak and Pinchot Sycamore	Hollywood Walk of Fame and Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Joseph Seward Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities	Site of Blackbeard's Death	Mount St. Helens	Porta Alchemica
Kirk Douglas Park	Our Lady Queen of Peace Statue	Dighton Rock	Edgar Allan Poe's Graves, Revisited
Hampton Beach Sand Sculptures	Neptune Statue	Beans in the Belfry	Cliffs of Moher
Sea Captains' Burial Ground	Winchester Mystery House	B-52 Bomber Crash Site	B-18 Bomber Crash Site
Mystic Aquarium	OTIS Miscellany	Dark Shadows Filming Sites	Tesla's Wardenclyffe
Andres Institute of Art	Roger Williams Park Zoo	Richmond Vampire and Hollywood Cemetery	Florence Cathedral
Death Rock of Alexander Hamilton	Madame Tussauds New York	Harvard Natural History Museum	Mac Tonight
Kinnity Castle	Montserrat	Sagrada Familia	Barcelona, Spain
Road to Rochester...ish	Children's Museum of Pittsburgh	Prabhupada's Palace of Gold	Paper House
L. Frank Baum's Yellow Brick Road	Hollywood Forever Cemetery	Cloud Gate	Benson Park

2011

Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond, Part 1	Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond, Part 2	Christmas in Manhattan	Newseum Murderbilia
Toys "R" Us Times Square	Museum of Purgatory	Cheers Bar	Odd Things My Wife's Seen II
Redwood National and State Parks	Field Museum	Archer-Gilligan Murder House	Headless Horseman Chase Route
Return to Sleepy Hollow	Grave of a Werewolf	Old Granary Burying Ground Skeleton Art	Grave of Ichabod Crane
Molly Dyer Stone	Rue York	Grave of the Vampire's Clasp	Tim Burton Exhibit
Edgar Allan Poe's Boston	Famous Graves	Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum (Niagara Falls)	Buffalo-Area Miscellany
Serial Killer Lions	Mouth of Truth and St. Valentine's Skull	Gillette Castle	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Maine Giantess	Forever Marilyn Statue	Dinosaur Land	Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Pompeii	Vesuvius	Kenny Loggins	Mystery Stone of Lake Winnipesaukee
Venice and Don't Look Now Church	Catamount People's Museum	Capuchin Crypt	New England Aquarium
Galileo's Fingers	Fountains of Rome	Dario Argento Museum of Horror	Cushing Brain Collection
Victor Emmanuel Monument	Damien Hurst's For the Love of God	Funspot and American Classic Arcade Museum	Burren and Poulnabrone Dolmen
Eartha	La Brea Tar Pits	Robot Hall of Fame	Boston Museum of Science
Grave Creek Mound	Libby Museum	West Virginia State Penitentiary	The Awakening Sculpture, Part 2
Sea Lion Caves and Pier 39	Trundle Manor

2010

Archbald Pothole	Christmas Light Festivals	The Christmas Loft	Hershey's Chocolate World (Christmas Edition)
ICE!: How the Grinch Stole Christmas	Udvar-Hazy Center	Forsaith Forest Pitcher Plants	Close Encounters Mothership
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Exhibit	Space Shuttle Enterprise	SR-71 Blackbird	Carnivorous Cobra Lilies
Stephen King Movie Filming Sites	Bela Lugosi's Grave	Mount Auburn Cemetery	Mt. Washington Auto Road
Exeter UFO Festival	Padihershef, the Mummy of Mass General	Green Mount Cemetery	John Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal
International Cryptozoology Museum	Edward Gorey House	The Nature Museum at Grafton	Dungeon Rock
Center Church Crypt	Panarchy Tomb Room	Skull Cliff	Louise Bourgeois' Eyes
Tall Ship Bounty	Sant Ocean Hall	Birthplace of L. Frank Baum	Grave of a Jack the Ripper Suspect
Twin Peaks Filming Locations	Jade Buddha for Universal Peace	Niagara Falls	Haystack Rock
Higgins Armory Museum	Haddonfield Hadrosaurus	Jack Kevorkian Paintings	U.S.S. Albacore
Newgrange Tomb	Tear of Grief	Odd Things My Wife's Seen	Anti-Gravity Monuments
Patrick Dougherty's So Inclined	Patrick Dougherty's Twisted Sisters	Abu Simbel	Woodman Institute Museum
Jonestown Massacre Mass Grave	Jim Henson Memorial

2009

Jerpoint Abbey	Budweiser Clydesdales	Fremont Troll	Mutter Museum
Elm Street (A Nightmare On)	Jumanji Mural and Keene Pumpkin Festival	Betty and Barney Hill Abduction, Part I	Betty and Barney Hill Abduction, Part II
Dinosaur State Park	Home of the Goonies	The Epic of American Civilization	Geisel Library
Seattle Underground	Timberline Lodge and Oregon State Hospital	West Coast Road Trip	Peter Iredale Shipwreck
Vasquez Rocks	Madame Sherri Castle Ruins	Madison Boulder	Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery
Blood Cemetery	Mudgett House	Mythic Creatures Exhibit	Carl Sagan Memorial Planet Walk
Dan Aykroyd	New England Aquarium Seals	The Station Fire Site	Frog Bridge
House of Exorcism Boy	Spooner Well	Akai the Dolphin

2008

Jason Miller Bust	Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden	Reverence Whale Tails	Lake Champlain Monster
Flying Monkeys of Burlington, VT	Night of the Living Dead Cemetery	Claude Rains' Grave	Salem, MA
Sleepy Hollow, NY, Part I	Sleepy Hollow, NY, Part II	Musica	Country Tavern Restaurant
Garfield's Tomb	Patrick Dougherty's Square Roots	The Gates of Hell	Science of Aliens Exhibit
ex-Princess Theatre	ex-Danvers State Hospital	ex-Danvers State Hospital, revisited	C.S. Lewis Centenary Statue
Drive-Through Safaris	Four Oddest Statues in Ireland, Part I	Four Oddest Statues in Ireland, Part II	Church Crypts of Dublin
Giant's Causeway	Ballygally Castle Hotel's Ghost Room	House of Seven Gables	H.P. Lovecraft
Harry Houdini's Grave	Hope Diamond	Mystery Hill

2007

Mercy Brown, Vampire	Barnum Museum	R2-D2 Mailboxes	Lizzie Borden B&B, Part I
Lizzie Borden B&B, Part II	Stephen King's House	Exorcist Stairs	Edgar Allan Poe Statue
Edgar Allan Poe's Graves	Home of the Blair Witch	Blackbeard's House	Eastern State Penitentiary
Stonehenge	Mummies of Philippi	Cave of Kelpius	Centralia, PA
Dark Crystal Skeksis	Dawn of the Dead Mall	Mothman Statue	Great Pyramid
The Awakening Sculpture	Graceland	Three Mile Island	War of the Worlds Monument