Boston, Massachusetts
Warren Anatomical Museum
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
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Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
New York, New York
New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.
Brentwood, New York
A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.
Kings Park, New York
This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
Hartford, Connecticut
The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.
Norwich, Connecticut
Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.
Montreal, Québec
Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.
Pomfret, Connecticut
A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Princeton, Massachusetts
The haunting history of a little girl lost.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.
Middletown, Rhode Island
This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.
Boston, Massachusetts
American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.
London, England
A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.
Paris, France
A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.
South Hero, Vermont
A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.
Rutland, Vermont
A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.
Montpelier, Vermont
Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.