Anywhere in the states, what city, what town, what state? and what was so good about it, and why? Good clubs? good cemetaries? lots of culture? lack of rednecks? what?
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Wanderingwolf
Orlando
  • I don't think I could name just one.
    1. my apartment building looks like an old church on the outside. It's over 100 years old- and it's haunted. Really.
    2. New Orleans- the Garden District and the cemetary where Marie Laveau is buried.
    3. The Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
    4. The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris.
    In NYC, there are too many places to count. A lot of it has to do with time of day, and who you're with. I still find parts of both the Met Museum and the American Museum of Natural History pretty Gothic, especially when I'm alone and it's in the evening.
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      The old Tacoma Cemetery , Tacoma, WA very old and gothic.. above ground sepulchres, tombs, moss over everything.
      They kind of frown on non relatives on the gorund after some punks went through trashing headstones.
  • hmm, thanks guys, i need to go back to New Orleans when i get the chance. Unfortunately i wont get theat chance to go to Tacoma, thats too far west for me right now, im In Florida.Might be a while too, sigh, need more money, but Ill definitely go back to New Orleans.
  • Oddly enough I find Savannah, Georgia (downtown) has a gothic feel. But then again it's a tourist trap for ghost hunters and so it does have a supernatural feel. All the old Victorian buildings and spanish moss gives it a swampy marshy feel. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah also gives me the chills. It's a very expensive cemetery where lots of famous people from Georgia were buried. They have a lot of tall statues and little mausoleums that gives it a slightly New Orleans feel. There's one grave in particular that is just downright creepy. It's a statue of a little five year old girl. She apparently was loved by many people in her time. She was the daughter of a prominent inn owner and all the guests loved her. When she died and sculpturer took a photo of her and carved a statue that is so good, you feel like she's watching you when you visit her grave. What made me almost want to cry is seeing her tiny period little shoes. I believed she died around the turn of the 20ith century.
    • Hightgate Cemerery London. Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest. In the latter there is a big mausoleum dedicated to dead communists and there are lots of dead poets too. Zagreb has a god cemetery too.

      I also find old toy shops anywhere quite gothic,. But maybe my gothic imagination got fed by the cliches of too many gothic films first.
    • Savannah is a wonderful Goth town. The dark , mythic history of the city can drawn you straight in.Have you done any tombstone rubbings in the cemetery, MAya? the spainish moss in the trees gives a nice Dark feeling to things. don't take any home though....damn stuff is full of chiggers. itchy ichty...learnt that lesson the hard way.........
      • Actually, if you get the stuff from the trees itself, there shouldn't be any chiggars in them. It's the stuff on the ground that is infested. Chiggars are ground hugging little buggers. I saw tourists one day playing with the stuff that had fallen to the ground. They put it on their heads like a wig lol! I told them to stop and why. They were mortified lol!
  • I'd suggest taking the time to go to Britain and visit Leeds- the entire city of it, since it has many goths and many good places for them to lurk- check Sheepish.net for information and contacts in Leeds. I'd also suggest Camden in London, which has shops, pubs (the Devonshire Arms even has a dress code to make the goths feel rather more at home), and is within short distance of many clubs, galleries, and pretty cemetaries such as Abney Park- there's now a band by that name.
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      Re: what is the most Gothic place you have ever sen?

      Tue, October 31, 2006 - 10:08 PM
      Capitola in Santa Cruz County is a Monistary that had been closed down for ages, we'd sneak in there... ultra cool!
      Piedmont, next to Oakland... huge cemetary with amazing graves and statues!

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      • Re: what is the most Gothic place you have ever sen?

        Sat, November 18, 2006 - 7:46 AM
        Sophia, Bulgaria, hauntingly beautiful with all the mountains, architecture.
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          Sat, November 18, 2006 - 8:29 AM
          There are plenty of places in Central Europe that are pretty gothic. I have seen grottos and graves with the mummified occupants still in their coffins in Wesgtern Hungary. I have been to Sigisoara, which I suppose was quite gothic in its way though a bit touristy now. In Budapest there is the Kerepesi cemetery, the labyrinths in the Buda caves.

          In Britian I did get to Highgate Cemetery also.
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            Wed, December 13, 2006 - 9:13 PM
            In the old city of Sigisoara, ie inside the citadel, there's a cemetary that no one has been buried at in hundreds of years - no more room. It's at the top of the mountain just down the street from the cathedral. It was a truly enchanting place - it's all open to walk through and I didn't have enough film to take all the pictures that I wanted to. Nearly all of Romania is a little touristy now unfortunately - that's the economy though.

            There are a lot of gothic places out there though, I live near Philadelphia and that is an incredibly gothic place. I think it's the whole atmosphere though, I can't pin-point one thing that makes it gothy really.
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    Tue, November 21, 2006 - 10:54 PM
    Ther is a strange out of the way christian community called Wiemar, off of Hw, 80, going up to Tahoe. After getting off at the exit, there is a long drive through remote countryside. It's way back in the hills, with little dorms where volunteers live.
    The place used to be a tuberculosis sanitarim-- so there are lots of windows, and of course, that is where the regulars stay. The staff, however,is spread out more, and one of the rooms I was put in was right over the morgue. Really creepy, and I don't scare easily. Dark and abandoned, just left there as it was. No bodies, but there was still a guerney or two.
    The other creepy thing about it is that among all the lovely happy hiking trails, if you go to one part, it is full of unnamed gravestones, smal ones.. where the patients were buried after they died. Plants and weeds have grown over many, but once you see one, ou can see all of them row after row. With no names, just a number. sad.
    Lucy
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      Fri, November 24, 2006 - 6:18 PM
      wow, thanks guys, im definitely going to check out Savannah, my girl likes it there and ive never been, been THROUGH ,lol, but never stopped, maybe we can go there and we can use that place for a honeymoon spot, do they have nice creepy patrks and stuff for walks ? ALthough we could use the cemetary for long romantic walks i prefer not to be harrased by the local cops and try to explain things. Do they have any nice hotels or B&Bs close to nice spooky places?
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    Fri, December 15, 2006 - 8:40 PM
    I love New Orleans, but if I was cemetary hitting, it'd be Metarie.

    I love Savannah too, but even tho Bonaventure is great, I also like the Revolutionary cem., such a shame many of the gravemarkers are gone.

    Salem, Mass, and in general the New England states...

    In PA, there's Laurel Hill Cemetary (in Philly), the Mutter Museum, a Doylestown castle thats now a museum, and many historic spots along the east half of the state.

    Delaware has Old New Castle, more colonial than goth, but then gothic I think is less goth architecturally specific, and more dark, dreary or old. There's also Winterthur, the Dupont estates, Gibralter House, Oberron house, Rockwood Museum, and others.

    The Cloisters in New York City

    In Dallas there's the Church nightclub, and a great cemetary over near the gay district of town that has wood markers.

    San Francisco is victorian goth

    There's a house/castle built by some seriously odd family in the mountains west of Denver, CO. Out in the middle of nowhere, they are very anti-gov't.

    AS far as Europe goes, the Parisian Catacombs, or hell any catacombs in Europe rawk.
    I liked alot of Germany's buildings myself, and I still remember some walled city in the middle of that country that we drove thru (no name), and the roman baths under Cologne.
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    Tue, February 19, 2008 - 8:56 PM
    I think I'd have to say Forrest Hills cemetary in Boston. Big old trees. lots of very old tombstones, above ground mausoleams with amazingly intricate doors of bronze or iron. More statuary than you can shake a stick at, and a lot of wonderful half-buried flat grave markers that you can trip over if you wander too near some of the bigger trees. Once of my favorite places.
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    In Orlando, FL we have a small town 50 miles so away called Cassadaga. It is made up of fortune tellers, psychics and Wichita members. They have a Spiritualist Camp that meets. ANYway, In the town, there is a graveyard that dates back to the earlier 1800’s. We would go there late at night with our girlfriends; the place was supposed to be haunted.

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