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Saugus, Massachusetts
Skull Cliff
The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.
Karachi, Pakistan
Chaukhandi Tombs
Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.
Salisbury, Connecticut
Noble Horizons Retirement Home
Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.
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.
Medford, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Short (Black Dahlia) Memorial
Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.
Lyme, Connecticut
Grave of Joan Bennett
Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
Edinburgh, Scotland
James Lind's Memorial Tablet
The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."
Haiti
Citadelle Laferrière
This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.
Glasgow, Scotland
Scottish Opera Titanic Memorial
Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.
Atlantic Ocean
Wreck of the Titanic
Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Fairview Lawn Cemetery
The final resting place of 121 victims of the RMS Titanic, 42 of which may never be identified.
Broken Hill, Australia
Titanic Bandsmen Memorial
A modest park memorial pays tribute to one of the Titanic's most revered storylines.
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Southampton, England
Titanic Memorial Cruise on the MS Balmoral
A cruise ship retraces the the route of the doomed RMS Titanic, 100 years later.
Malmedy, Belgium
The Tomb of Mr. Hawarden at Malmédy
A gender-bending antihero's grave, where lies the inspiration for both book and film.
Tombstone, Arizona
Boothill Graveyard
A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.
Glendale, California
Forest Lawn Cemetery
An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.
Seymour, Indiana
Graves of The Reno Gang
The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.
London, England
Polly at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.
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