Mass Graves

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The mysterious large white cross visible from the runway is a memorial to a massacre during Spanish Civil War.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

This memorial to a horrific ship collision sits over a mass grave holding dozens of the victims.

An Irish cemetery filled with victims of political strife and violent conflict, including the grave of Bobby Sands.