Haunted Places & Oddities · Trailwind

The eerie, the macabre and the wonderfully strangeHaunted Places & Oddities is a hand-picked Trailwind collection of 18 places: The eerie, the macabre and the wonderfully strange. Every entry has its own guide with the best time to go, what's nearby and how to build a trip around it.

Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California

Catacombs of Paris, Paris

Sedlec Ossuary, Kutna Hora

Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Island of the Dolls, Xochimilco

Capuchin Catacombs, Palermo

The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado

Bran Castle, Bran

Highgate Cemetery, London

Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky

Hoia Baciu Forest, Cluj-Napoca

The Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana

Darvaza Gas Crater, Derweze

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia

Salem, Salem, Massachusetts

Poveglia Island, Venice

Chateau de Brissac, Loire Valley

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Trailwind finds the moment a trip is unusually possible: the right season, a cheap fare, your open dates, and rare skies. Browse by calendar:

Cosmic calendar — meteor showers, eclipses and aurora, and the best time to see each

Nature's calendar — wildlife migrations, blooms and seasonal wonders, and when to go

World culture calendar — festivals, celebrations and rituals, and when they happen (Holi, Diwali, Day of the Dead and more)

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