Unusual Destinations For Your Next Road Trip: Creepiest Places To Go
These are some destinations I found for people who like to skip the usual tourist attractions and see all the weird shit that America has to offer.
For those who wish to get in touch with their inner psychopaths or just like being grossed out, check these out:
1. The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast - (Fall River, MA) Where their motto is "Apart from that bloody murder all those years ago, our hospitality is impeccable!" This is the actual house where Lizzie Borden allegedly killed her family with an axe in 1892, but is now a bed and breakfast inn. That's right, you too can sleep in the same rooms where various Borden family members were murdered. In the morning, you can eat the same breakfast foods they had on the day of their gruesome deaths. The B&B even features live re-enactments for your viewing pleasure, because what could be more fun than a brutal axe killing? Don't forget to stop at the gift shop on your way out. There you can pick up authentic brick dust collected from the basement or this adorable Lizzie Borden bobble head figure.
2. Festival of the Dead - (Salem, MA) This is where the REAL Salem witches go to celebrate! Each year it attracts witches, goths, and other misunderstood youth from all over the world. Main attractions are:
- The Witches' Ball - Because witches like to party too. At the end of the evening, elder witches from the local coven, "will honor the Witches’ New Year by casting the annual Salem Witches' Magic Circle, to draw open the veil to the spirit world and conjure the spirits!"
- The Vampires' Masquerade Ball - Because vampires like to party too. This sounds more like a B&D sex party though. Expect lots of scantily clad goth chicks with fake pointy teeth, as you "witness blood ceremonies" while listening to the goth sounds of DJ AddamBomb.
- The Witches' Dumb Supper - Guests are invited to participate in an evening of total silence, food, and spirits (no, not drinks, REAL spirits.)
- Annual Psychic Fair & Witchcraft Expo - Tarot cards, palm readings, etc. Also a good place to pick up herbs for your magic potions, a few candles, and maybe a broom.
- The Death Files - Some kind of tribute to serial killers.
- Ghost Hunting 101 & Ouija Boards - Everything you need to know for amateur paranormal investigators.
- Messages From The Spirit World Seance - Of course there's a seance. What Festival of the Dead would be complete without one?
- Death & Rebirth: Ritual Transformation - Self-help for witches.
- Ms. Firefly's School of Spirit Conjuration - For the kids! "Let the Witches of Salem teach your children to make friends with spirits! Join Salem’s own Ms. Firefly as she teaches kids the ancient arts of spirit conjuration! Spirit contact comes easy to children because they have not yet learned to ignore their “imaginary” friends. Ms. Firefly will guide these eager young minds to understanding that spirits are not dangerous forces but rather helpful playmates!"
- The Terror Fantasy Art Show - Morbid paintings and shit.
The Mutter Museum - (Philadelphia, PA) A collection of over 20,000 objects meant for doctors and scientists to view as a teaching aid, but average 
people just go see them for the gross out factor. It's an upscale version of Ripley's Believe It or Not, but instead of calling it a freak show, they call it "medical abnormalities". Some of the popular displays are the fluid-preserved specimens, 19th century wax models of skin disease, skulls and bones "showing the ravages of syphilis" (bonus!), the Soap Lady (an actual dead body that had turned into soap), a gangrenous hand, preserved brains of famous murderers, skeletons of people with major deformities, President Grover Cleveland's jaw tumor, somebody's enlarged colon, and sliced sections of the human head. The museum also just included a new database of OB-GYN instruments. Who doesn't want to see that?! Wait, there's a gift shop too, because you'll always want a reminder of this trip. There are lots of trendy items that feature Cheng and Eng, the Siamese Twins: Tee Shirts, Tote Bags, Earrings...because nothing says classy style like exploiting someone's deformity.
Chocolates by Mueller - (Philadelphia, PA) Since the trip to the Mutter Museum probably made you build up one hell of an appetite, your next stop should be this chocolate shoppe. Sure, they have the usual delicacies such as truffles, marzipan, and caramel apples. But who wants that, when you can have anatomically-correct Lungs, Hearts, Lab Rats, Brains, Noses, and Ears...ALL made out of gourmet chocolate? My favorite is the Chocolate Dentures, described on the website as "white chocolate teeth, pink chocolate gums, just like Grandpa's chompers." Yum!
Know of anything interesting I could add to this list? Drop me a comment if you do!
