Weird Tourism

The House on the Rock: America’s Most Insane Roadside Attraction?

  Wisconsin is home to many places considered sacred and powerful by the indigenous people. When British author Neil Gaiman came to live in the US, he felt such an affinity for the state that he decided to make his new home in rural Wisconsin. And that was where...

Death Festivals Around the World

  Mexico isn’t the only country that sets a date with the dead. Around the world, different countries, cultures, and religions have unique relationships with their dead. And yet, there are plenty of festivals of the dead—which take place over the course of days,...

Going, Going, Gone… See the Gettysburg Dime Museum While You Can!

  A refreshing change from Gettysburg’s plentiful Civil War museums and memorials, this delightful cabinet of curiosities is (unfortunately) in its final season.   Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is a town whose claim to fame is history. The quaint streets...

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe… or Did She?

  How a notorious 19th century (accused) axe murderer became today’s pop culture icon   “Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother Forty Whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father Forty-One.”   Thanks to the schoolyard rhyme, even...

The Cecil – Downtown LA’s Creepy Hotel of Horrors

  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...