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America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

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

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.