Rochester, New York
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.
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Rochester, New York
A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.
Cassadaga, New York
Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.
Caledon, Ontario
These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.
Yonkers, New York
America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.
Yonkers, New York
An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.
Hartford, Connecticut
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
Dobbs Ferry, New York
This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.
Rochester, New York
The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.
Peekskill, New York
Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Ithaca, New York
This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.
Woodstock, New York
A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Milford, New Hampshire
A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.
Concord, Massachusetts
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
Watertown, Massachusetts
The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Boston, Massachusetts
A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.
Boston, Massachusetts
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.