Waltham, Massachusetts
Lyman Estate Greenhouses
These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.
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Waltham, Massachusetts
These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.
Somerville, Massachusetts
A tiny town in an empty lot was the work of a local eight-year-old.
Somerville, Massachusetts
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is the house that spite built.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Rabat, Malta
Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Odesa, Ukraine
The largest catacomb system in the world.
Oslo, Norway
An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.
La Pera, Spain
Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...
Rome, Italy
Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.
Rome, Italy
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Naples, Italy
Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Portland, Oregon
The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."