The most stunning road trip in Europe is in Romania, from the meadows of Cartisoara, across the snow-capped Fagaras mountains, through a spooky 887m tunnel, past lakes and waterfalls – and then comes the best bit: the snaking descent, with more U-turns and twists than seem possible.
At the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater, built in Sweden in 1876 and moved to Central Park more than 100 years ago, the time trip includes a performance of "Jack and the Beanstalk" and a walk past spooky rows of puppets awaiting their puppeteers.
As Halloween steadily approaches this week, we decided to take a look at a few of our favorite spooky-themed songs, past and present, to assist in creeping your friends out on your nearest dance floor.
The spooky part about that?
They invoke spooky allusions to the past and invite us to draw lessons from them.
Lola Boss, spokeswoman for Indian Rock, a 166-acre preserve, said more than 800 people visit Indian Rock each year for a spooky, hourlong tractor-drawn hayride past the lake and through dark woods.
Produced by Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona's maiden feature is a chilling and often shocking puzzler about a woman who uncovers dark secrets about her own past in the spooky manor where she spent her youth.
Future's style is also simpatico with the last couple of mixtapes by Young Thug, which take the same outlier ideas far past musicality into far spookier territory.
