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Description: Dan Aykroyd wrote, directed, and starred in Nothing But Trouble — a 1991 film about a deranged judge living in a collapsing mansion full of rollercoaster tracks and human disposal units. It was a disaster and it is also completely unforgettable. No notes.

Description: Downton Abbey ran for six seasons and the house was as much a character as the Crawleys. Highclere Castle in Hampshire has been standing since the 17th century and the ITV period drama made it the most famous manor house in the world. Carson is still somewhere in there.

Description: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel is the best haunted house story in the history of television — a story about grief wearing the skin of horror.

Description: It is a true thing that all we have is the moment we are in. Bly Manor is the most quietly devastating haunted house story in recent television — less about the ghosts and more about the people who become them. Mike Flanagan understood the assignment.

Description: Anne of Green Gables arrived at the wrong farm and made it exactly the right one. L.M. Montgomery's farmhouse on Prince Edward Island is one of literature's most beloved fictional addresses — quiet, green, and full of a girl who couldn't stop talking or stop being wonderful.

Description: The King's home. Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee is the second most-visited private home in America — behind only the White House — and every visitor is really just trying to get a little bit closer to Elvis. The gates never really close.

Description: The most famous private estate in California. Neverland Ranch was Michael Jackson's 2,700-acre complex in Santa Ynez — complete with a theme park, a railway, and a zoo — and it remains one of the most surreal and singular addresses in American pop culture history.

Description: Every door in Keyhouse hides something. Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Keyhouse is one of the most imaginative fictional settings in recent comics — a house where the keys are real and every lock opens something you cannot take back.

Description: The most famous door in the world. Number 10 has been the official residence of British Prime Ministers since 1735 and the black door is synonymous with power, policy, and the weight of history. Whatever's happening inside, the door never changes.

Description: Every hundred years it rises again. Dracula's Castle from Castlevania is one of gaming's most enduring settings — labyrinthine, relentless, and impossibly designed. Simon Belmont has been whipping his way through it for decades and somehow it never gets easier.

Description: Built by Louis XIV to demonstrate that no one on earth had more power than the King of France. The Palace of Versailles is the most extravagant royal residence ever constructed — 2,300 rooms, 800 hectares of gardens, and a Hall of Mirrors that still makes every visitor feel small.

Description: The Spencer Mansion is where survival horror was born. Resident Evil put eight members of S.T.A.R.S. inside a zombie-filled estate and invented a genre. The Umbrella Corporation built something beautiful and horrifying and Capcom used it to change gaming forever.

Description: Croft Manor is where Lara grew up, trained, and prepared to raid every tomb on earth. It's the home base of one of gaming's most iconic characters — and the hedge maze has been a training ground, a puzzle, and occasionally a battlefield.

Description: Luigi never asked to inherit a mansion and he absolutely did not want it once he saw what was living inside. Luigi's Mansion took gaming's second banana and finally gave him a starring role — and the Poltergust 3000 was the perfect weapon for the most reluctant hero in Nintendo history.

Description: The salt of the earth. MJF is the most naturally gifted heel in professional wrestling and has been since he was twenty-two years old. Every promo is a masterclass, every feud has a story, and Long Island still won't give him the credit he deserves. He'll be fine.

Description: Bay Bay. The longest-reigning NXT Champion in history who made an entire crowd learn a three-word catchphrase and yell it back perfectly every time. Adam Cole is one of the most naturally charismatic performers in professional wrestling — heel or babyface, the result is the same.

Description: Every match, Rey Fenix does something that makes the entire building believe they just witnessed something physically impossible. He has been doing this for years and has not run out of impossible things. The Lucha Brothers are the best tag team in the world when they decide to be.

Description: Shush please! One of the most talented wrestlers on the roster has finally won the Intercontinental Title!

Description: He's bouncy! One of the most explosive young talents in WWE.

Description: Say his name and he appears! I believe in Joe Hendry! The most charismatic performer in TNA history has made an entire fanbase into genuine believers.

Description: The Dozer. Otis went from Heavy Machinery fan favorite to Alpha Academy enforcer and somehow both versions work perfectly. There are few people in WWE more genuinely entertaining when given the chance.

Description: Rayo Americano brings the full theatrical package — patriotic, precise, and impossible to ignore. Every entrance is a statement. The mask does all the talking before he even gets to the ring.

Description: Swerve's house. Everybody. The AEW World Championship run was the culmination of a journey that made every fan who believed in him from the beginning feel completely vindicated.

Description: It's Tiffy Time. Tiffany Stratton's gymnastics background gave her a physical toolkit that nobody else in WWE has, and she's been cashing that in as SmackDown Women's Champion.

Description: GOLDIE was his. It will always have been his. Tommaso Ciampa's NXT heel run is one of the best character arcs in developmental wrestling history — Psycho Killer at his absolute peak.

Description: The Aerial Assassin. Will Ospreay has been the best wrestler in the world for stretches of the last several years and has the match quality across NJPW, AEW, and WWE to back that up completely.

Description: STARDOM's most elegant performer is now bringing that grace and precision to AEW, and the Conglomeration is better for it. Mina Shirakawa makes everything she's in feel like an occasion.

Description: Dirty Dom. He turned heel on his own father in front of the entire world at Clash at the Castle, joined Judgment Day, and has been the most entertaining member of every segment he's been in ever since. The mustache was the final piece of the puzzle.

Description: The most complete package on SmackDown for two years straight and somehow perpetually undervalued. MVP's US Championship run was one of the best quiet title reigns of the mid-2000s, and the Hurt Business proved he never lost a single step.

Description: CMLL-trained, NJPW-forged, NXT-ready. Dragon Lee is one of the most explosively talented high-flyers in professional wrestling — the kind of performer who makes everything look dangerous and effortless at the same time.

Description: The original evil clown — before it was a genre, Doink was a genuinely unsettling character who used comedy as a weapon. The heel version was one of the WWF's most creative characters of the early 1990s. Matt Borne understood the assignment completely.

Description: The human suplex machine. Taz's ECW run was one of the most legitimately intimidating character studies in professional wrestling — a genuinely small man who convinced everyone he could break anyone in half. The FTW Championship was never officially recognized. He wore it anyway.

Description: WHAT DOES EVERYBODY WANT? HEAD. Al Snow and his beloved mannequin head were one of the great unsung acts of the Attitude Era — committed, completely unhinged, and somehow deeply compelling. The Hardcore Championship looked good on him.

Description: Cowboy shit. Hangman's title win was the most emotionally invested crowd moment AEW has ever produced — two years of storytelling paid off in one night, and everyone in that building felt they had earned it alongside him. Yeehaw.

Description: Unlock the mystery. Keyhouse in Matheson, Massachusetts is the fictional address that Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez filled with magical keys, hidden doors, and every childhood fear made real. This postcard makes it sound like a destination. It sort of is.

Description: Where dreams take flight. The Neverland Ranch travel poster renders Michael Jackson's legendary Santa Ynez estate as the amusement park destination it actually was — complete with a Ferris wheel, a floral clock, and rolling hills that made the whole thing feel slightly impossible.