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Hill family plot
Kingston, New Hampshire

Betty and Barney Hill Graves

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Close up of some of the crowded and near-illegible accusation
Milford, New Hampshire

Caroline Cutter Headstone

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.
The Riley Graves
Eyam, England

Eyam Plague Village Museum

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
Rock with the devil's footprint imprinted in its surface
Manchester, Maine

Devil’s Footprint

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.
The well-kept headstones in the cemetery
Leicester, Massachusetts

Spider Gates Cemetery

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.
Grave of Midnight Mary
New Haven, Connecticut

Grave of Midnight Mary

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.
Vancouver, British Columbia

Mountain View Cemetery

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.
William Stowell tomb
Montpelier, Vermont

Green Mount Cemetery

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.
Sarah Winchester
New Haven, Connecticut

Grave of Sarah Winchester

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.
Lancaster County
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster Cemetery

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."
Medb's Cairn
Sligo, Ireland

Medb's Cairn

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.
Close-up of the window
New Haven, Vermont

Grave of Timothy Clark Smith

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.
Tomb where the remains of Charles Tilton were supposed to be interred
Northfield, New Hampshire

Memorial Arch of Tilton

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.
Close-up of Mary Nasson's image on her grave
York, Maine

York Witch Grave

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.
Chaukhandi Tombs
Karachi, Pakistan

Chaukhandi Tombs

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.
Station Fire site, six years after the tragedy
West Warwick, Rhode Island

Station Fire Memorial Park

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.
Gravestone of Joan Bennett
Lyme, Connecticut

Grave of Joan Bennett

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Falmouth, Massachusetts

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s Grave

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.