Pretty much every modern pagan, new age, and satanic belief comes from one man, Aleister Crowley. In addition to founding a highly influential occult order himself, he is the direct inspiration of both Gerald Gardner's Book of Shadows, giving rise to Wicca, and much of Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible. Pansexual, drug-loving, fascinated by the shadowy corners of the world, he was also understandably a big deal to many of the world's most famous rockers including Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.

Page, though not a member of Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis, was just fascinated with the man and eventually bought one of his mansions, the Boleskine House, on the shores of Loch Ness. When it came time to film-fantasy sequences for the concert film the Song Remains the Same, Page shot his scenes in the mountains directly behind the house. It's also likely that the intro to "In the Evening," originally demoed by Page as "Lucifer Rising," was recorded there.

A Scottish friend of the Gothic Council, Raven Madd, told me that she had visited the house, and that it had a pleasant energy. Nonetheless, Page believed the residence to be haunted by a ghostly decapitated head that you could hear rolling down the stairs at night.

Local legend says the house has a hidden passage that leads to a nearby cemetery.

2. Live at Castle Bathory

One of history's greatest monsters was Elizabeth Bathory, who might have eventually topped Adolf Hitler in pure evil if she had been on the other side of the Industrial Revolution. In the 17th century, the aging Hungarian Countess believed that bathing in the blood of young girls would restore her youth, and may have had as many as 600 of them kidnapped, slaughtered and drained to provide her with her rejuvenating baths. So the next time your wife wants to spend $30 at the LUSH counter, remember that it could always be worse.

According to our highly trained team of metal historians, Bathory is directly responsible for almost 13 percent of all the metal tunes in existence. Dani Filth told us that he would love to play a live show in the still standing castle where she lived and killed, though he admitted that the structure is probably not up for such a gig.

Jam band Stefanik, Perny & Kollar did the next best thing, though, when they invited Kofi to join them in the village of Višňové to record a live album called Channeling Of Lady Elizabeth Bathory. Čachtice Castle sits directly above it, and it's likely that more than one victim was kidnapped from there by Bathory for her purposes.