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It’s one thing to sit in the audience and enjoy a spooky play or movie. It’s another to stumble upon a legendary ghost in an empty hall (even if it is Judy Garland). Not for the squeamish, these terror-ific theaters will make your skin crawl. We go to the theater for...

Called "the perfect place to die," the Aokigahara forest has the unfortunate distinction of the world’s second most popular place to take one’s life. (The first is the Golden Gate Bridge.) Since the 1950s, Japanese businessmen have wandered in, and at least...

Thursday, October 30, 2014 Several years ago, I stumbled across a photo of a waterfall that looked like it was in the middle of an enchanted forest. The waterfall cascaded from terraces into a crystal clear blue-green lake.   I was sure the picture was fabricated because the...

Standing in the middle of Bern, Switzerland, is the Kindlifresser, or “Child Eater.” The fountain sculpture towers above the ground a baby half stuffed into his mouth, and a sack full of three alarmed tots slung over its shoulder presumably for later snacking. The disturbing...

Inside a stark modern marble building, Yale University’s rare books are housed in an architecturally stunning, elevated, glassed-in, 6-story tower of book stacks. The stacks hold the university’s extensive collection of medieval manuscripts, rare books, maps, historic...