We mapped the stops. Now you just have to figure out how to get there. Good luck.
A one-day sweep from the Rocky Mountain hotel that inspired The Shining, down through an airport whose murals and rumored underground tunnels have made it a conspiracy-theory landmark in its own right, ending with cliff divers and enchiladas at Denver's favorite rebuilt cult-classic restaurant.
A three-day desert drive from one of America's largest mass UFO sightings to roadside strangeness, the birthplace of modern flying-saucer mythology, and the mesa said to conceal an underground base near Dulce.
A two-day drive across Anatolia between two sites that hid in plain sight: the oldest known monumental structure on Earth, deliberately buried by the people who built it, and an underground city carved to hold thousands, sealed behind stone doors and forgotten for centuries.
Two days in and around Mexico City: an afternoon drifting the canals of Xochimilco, birthplace of the centuries-old weeping-woman legend and home to a doll-covered island built by one grieving recluse, followed by a full day among the pyramids of a 2,000-year-old city whose builders the Aztecs themselves never knew.
A two-day drive through three of Massachusetts' most enduring dark histories: the 1692 witch-trial landscape of Salem, the still-unsolved Borden murders in Fall River, and the folklore-dense Hockomock Swamp at the heart of the Bridgewater Triangle.
Two days across New York State: from the Hudson Valley village that gave America its Headless Horseman, south into Manhattan to a windowless tower secretly built for mass surveillance, and out to the tip of Long Island where a decommissioned Cold War base is rumored to have hidden a government mind-control program.
A day trip from Philadelphia's most infamous former prison, where solitary confinement was invented and visitors still report voices in empty cell blocks, into the Pine Barrens where a winged, cloven-hoofed legend has roamed since the 1700s, and out to the Jersey Shore for a six-story wooden elephant that's greeted visitors since 1881.
A two-day desert drive between two homemade monuments to belief: a folk-art mountain built by hand over decades, and a geodesic dome built to channel sound and -- its builder claimed -- instructions received from beyond.
A half-day loop through Point Pleasant, West Virginia, retracing the three sites at the center of the most famous cryptid sighting wave in American folklore — from the museum downtown to the abandoned TNT Area where it began, and the Silver Bridge site forever linked to the legend.
A two-day drive up England's east coast: from centuries of reported hauntings inside the Tower of London, north to the Suffolk airbase at the center of Britain's most thoroughly documented UFO case, and on to the Suffolk coast where a spectral black dog has been reported since the 16th century.
