by Maledicta | Jul 30, 2018 | Halloween 365, Weird Tourism
The Los Angeles landmark that inspired American Horror Story: Hotel! The Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles has seen more than its fair share of suicides, murders and mysterious disappearances since its opening in 1927. Built on Main Street, an up-and-coming...
by Maledicta | Jul 23, 2018 | Halloween 365, Weird Tourism
… but you can still visit him in Budapest! Though Bela Lugosi died (or DID HE?) in 1956, he was immortalized by his iconic turn as Count Dracula, Hungarian Homeboy. The Kinks, Bauhaus, and Andy Warhol have all paid homage to Bela. And now he can...
by Maledicta | Jun 24, 2018 | Books, Weird Tourism
Back in October 2017, we featured an article about the phenomenon of Dark Tourism, AKA Black Tourism, Grief Tourism, or “thanatourism.” As tourists seem to be increasingly drawn to places linked to death, disaster, atrocity, or ongoing...
by Maledicta | Jun 17, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities, Weird Tourism
In the middle of the city of Bern, Switzerland, there is a fountain above which stands a statue of a man eating a sack full of babies. No one knows why it’s there or where it came from. The fountain sculpture towers above the ground, one baby half stuffed into...
by Maledicta | Jun 3, 2018 | Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities, Weird Tourism
One day toward the beginning of March, an unusual object arrived at a New York City airport. Carefully encased in a foam-padded, specially built wooden chair and strapped in with a bright-blue sash, it was the stuffed skeleton of one of Britain’s most...
by Maledicta | Jun 3, 2018 | Weird Tourism
Bring a blanket and picnic among the tombstones… Victorian Style! By the 19th century, church graveyards had a worse reputation than you might expect. In addition to their general doom and gloom, they were rife with body snatching, gambling, and...
