This year's weird October road trip included a visit to
Edgar Allan Poe's house and grave, the final resting places of
Johnny Eck, sideshow performer and star of
Freaks, and Ouija board inventor Elijah Bond, lavender milkshakes at
Papermoon Diner, John Waters'
favorite bookstore, and oddity shopping at
Bazaar.
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| Poe's house in Baltimore, where he wrote Berenice, and other stories |
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| Poe's memorial grave, Westminster Hall Burying Ground |
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| Westminster Hall, Baltimore |
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| a crypt in Westminster Hall Burying Ground |
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| a statue in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore |
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Johnny Eck and his twin brother Robert,
both buried in Green Mount cemetery |
Sadly, one place I would have loved to visit on my weird day out, the
Shipley-Lydecker house in Baltimore, no longer stands:
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built in 1903, the design of its facade was lifted almost wholesale by
Imagineer Ken Anderson for the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland |
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