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A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

When a guy acquired a free church, he hauled it away piece-by-piece to make it the tasting hall at his vineyard.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

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