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Lawton, Oklahoma
The Tar Pits
34.6462, -98.3489
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‘The Mother of the Sea’ (Sassuma Arnaa)
64.1788, -51.7463
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The Dodder Rhino
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St. Patrick’s Church
46.1428, -60.1986
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Comrie, Scotland
Cultybraggan WWII POW Camp
Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.
Las Vegas, Nevada
St. Valentine's Day Massacre Wall
The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.
Bodmin, England
Bodmin Jail
This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.
Permanently Closed
Manzanillo, Mexico
Museo de Perversidad (Museum of Perversity)
Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.
Paris, France
The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."
Pont-Saint-Esprit, France
The Hallucinations of Pont-Saint-Esprit
A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?
Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg Studentenkarzer
A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.
Hagley, England
Wychbury Obelisk
An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.
Brooklyn, New York
Mafia Executioner Albert Anastasia's 1920s Home
Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.
Los Angeles, California
Vineyard Station Trolley Tragedy
A lovely summer day by the sea becomes a nightmare.
Niš, Serbia
Red Cross Concentration Camp
A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.
Niš, Serbia
Bubanj Memorial Park
This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.
Baltimore, Maryland
Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Port Arthur, Australia
Port Arthur Penal Colony
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
Delaware City, Delaware
Fort Delaware
A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.
Brookfield, Massachusetts
Spooner Well
Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.
Peabody, Massachusetts
Grave of the Boston Strangler
Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Graves of the Smuttynose Murder Victims
Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.
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