London, England
The Hardy Tree
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
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London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Ottawa, Ontario
The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.
Ballasalla, Isle of Man
Mysterious chains and iron stakes adorn this strange grave, with no explanation.
York, England
Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.
Marble Falls Township, Texas
Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.
Seville, Spain
This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.
Singapore
One of the largest Chinese cemeteries outside of China spent years overgrown and forgotten.
Guiyang, China
It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.
Berlin, Germany
A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.
Belize
Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.
Virginia City, Nevada
These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.
Commerce City, Colorado
Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Rantepao, Indonesia
The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.
Cameron, West Virginia
The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.
Los Angeles, California
A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
Youngsville, North Carolina
A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, Spain
Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.