Places Edited by Allison Meier

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.