Memento Mori

The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.