COOL WORD: GRIMPENDIUM

Billing itself as a "guide to macabre and ghastly sites," J. W. Ocker's The New England Grimpendium is a collection of miscellany from the northeast. Ranging from banal curiosities such as Edward Gorey's home and the Nature Museum at Grafton, to the more promising "Dungeon Rock" and John Zaffis' Museum of the Paranormal, wherein the august investigator has amassed hundreds of possessed or paranormal-related bric-a-brac. You can learn more at his O.T.I.S. (Odd Things I have Seen) blog.