Café de Nuit

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

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

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

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

The Lesser Evil wrote: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.

Well, bushwack 'em!

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.

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.

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

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

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.