Mary Shelley had a reason for all the geographical locations she used throughout 'Frankenstein.'

Odds are you've seen a Frankenstein movie at some point in your life. Lots of  flat heads and staggering monsters that mumble "Braaaains..." while finding some human utterly delicious looking.

Mary Shelley's book, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (yeah, that was the full title), was actually quite a world traveler of a text though, with a highly verbose monster who jaunted around Europe while occasionally causing murderous mayhem.

This wannabe jet-set lifestyle of Frankenstein has led The Smithsonian Magazine to detail the variety of real-life geographical locations that likely inspired Shelley. These locations include Castle Frankenstein in Germany (for obvious reasons) and Bolgna, Italy (where physician Luigi Galvani once used electricity to charge dead frogs in 1781), to Chamonix, France (where Shelley vacationed) and the Orkney Islands, Scotland (near where a teenage Mary spent two years of her life).

The real fun fact to be learned? The novel includes Spezia, Italy, as a location the monster visits. Spezia is nearby a location where Shelley's husband, famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, would later die by drowning when his sailboat capsized during a storm four years after Frankenstein's publication.

So the monster was STILL alive after all.