Places of note on Gothic Earth

[Manofevil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan

[Manofevil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole-in-the-Wall

[Manofevil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamint_City,_California

[Manofevil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbers_Roost

[Manofevil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville

[Manofevil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tombs

[Manofevil]

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/noto ... index.html

[The Lesser Evil]

A nice, old fashioned town of witches to get back that ol' Lovecraft County feelin'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtown,_Massachusetts

[The Lesser Evil]

And a place in the heartlands that (according to legend) contains a gateway to hell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stull,_Kansas

[Catman Jim]

And a place in the heartlands that (according to legend) contains a gateway to hell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stull,_Kansas

I live just about a half hour drive from this, I would agree with the assessment of "gateway to hell": the area is absolutely thick with KU Jayhawks fans.

[Manofevil]

Well, bushwack 'em!

[The Lesser Evil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhetaten the once capital city of Pharaoh Akhenaten, one of the first monotheists of the ancient world. Sadly, his would legacy soon collapsed after his death, and his capital was abandoned and left in ruins.

[Ronin Lore]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
Chris Perkel and Georgie Roland's 2007 feature-length documentary "The Town That Was" does a much better job than the Wikipedia artical.

[Boris Drakov]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen

The site of Edgar Allan Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom"

[Boris Drakov]

http://www.skaillhouse.co.uk/

Built on a Viking burial ground and a short walk from Neolithic houses this estate on the edge of the Orkneys embody thousands of years of bleak existence.