A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

Home to herbal cosmetics, teas, and a unique set of dolls known as kitchen witches.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

A haunting army of decomposing, moss-covered stuffed animals and dolls guard this swinging truss.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.