The Edward Gorey House, Yarmouth Port

In nineteen seventy-nine, the illustrator Edward Gorey bought a two-hundred-year-old sea captain's house on Strawberry Lane in Yarmouth Port and eventually moved here permanently in nineteen eighty-six. He spent the last years of his life in this house, surrounded by dozens of cats and creating the drawings that made him famous: intricate cross-hatched Victorian worlds populated by mysterious children, furry creatures, and unexplained disappearances. His nineteen seventy-seven design for the Broadway revival of Dracula won him a Tony Award for costume design.

After his death in two thousand, the house became a museum dedicated to his work and to his passion for animal welfare, he left his entire estate to benefit animals. The Gorey House hosts rotating exhibits through December each year and has become a pilgrimage site for admirers of one of the most singular imaginations in American illustration.