Travels

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.

Dollywood Christmas Bone Chapel Church Cemetery Spaulding Memorial School Bat
Three Sleepy Hollow Things Devil's Footprint, Mr. Potato Head, and Nori the Dragon Poe St., Skeleton Plaque, and Murder Site Brooksbrae Brick Factory Ruins
Lou Costello Statue Lucille's Country Cooking Emilio Carranza Rodríguez Memorial Hightower Mansion Ruins
Buddy Holly Crash Site Thomas Dambo's Trolls Thunderbird Sculpture Hitler Cemetery

Dahl Bigfoot The God Machine Clerks Mural Grave of Richard McDonald

Jenny Lind Tower North Truro Air Force Base Blue Vampire Santa Claus Danvers Asylum Cemetery 2
Gloucester Sea Serpent Old Durham Cemetery Shade Swamp Sanctuary Dutra's Market UFO Abduction
Headless Horseman Bridge Salem and the Sickness Ordination Rock & Archie Statue Sacred Cat Rug
Hillside Cemetery Salem Witch Trials Exhibition Satan's Kingdom, Parking Meter Grave, Hoosac Memorial, Spruces, Mt. Greylock Castle Craig
Point of Graves Holy Land USA Graves & Gravestones of Cape Cod, Pt. 1 Graves & Gravestones of Cape Cod, Pt. 2
Caroline Cutter Grave Dana & F-49 Starfire Grave of Julian Beck Seekonk Monster Mini-Golf
Richard Potter Grave TMNT Site Hollis Witch House Aleister Crowley House
Lily Dale, NY Museum of Historic Torture Devices Medieval Torture Museum JAWS the Ride Shark

Fright Before Christmas Westford Poe Bench Annabelle Doll Haunted Overload 2023
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 PEZ Factory 2023

Bing Crosby's Homes Prancer Filming Sites Silver Scream 2023 Salem 2023
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

ICE! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Lindow Man and Gebelein Man Guillermo del Toro's Monsters 2023 Fright Before Christmas
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
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 Robert Wadlow Sites
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
Salem Time Machine Salem at Night Salem at Random Salem at Random II
Fort Monroe Pet CemeterySalem Haunted Happenings ParadeJack Skellington GraveThe Horseman Restaurant
Devil's HoofprintsLivermore Ghost TownLast House on the Left CemeteryTomb of William Stoughton
Serpent and the Rainbow Film SiteRobert Johnson CrossroadsMonteverde Cloud ForestBaltimore Poe Square Dedication
2015 Hampton Beach Sand SculpturesPoás VolcanoDog ChapelMuseo Nacional de Costa Rica
Clinton Train TunnelPatrick Dougherty's "Stickwork"Diquis SpheresThe Vulcan Statue
Storm King WallStorm King Art CenterArizona Meteor CraterCity Museum
Antelope CanyonGrand Canyon Mid-Air CollisionGrand Canyon Temp InversionBirthplace of Kermit the Frog
Famous Graves 2OTIS Miscellany V, Part IOTIS Miscellany V, Part IIEli 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

Ceres Bethel AME Church Clement C. Moore House ICE!: Frosty the Snowman LaLa's Little Nugget
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

Bowman Mausoleum Medfield State Hospital and Cemetery Killing a Christmas in Salem
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

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

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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 Ichabod Crane'd Have No Chance in Today's Sleepy Hollow

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

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


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

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