San Diego, California
San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
This historic Chinese church was relocated and revived as a museum that preserves and celebrates Chinese art, history, and culture.
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San Diego, California
This historic Chinese church was relocated and revived as a museum that preserves and celebrates Chinese art, history, and culture.
San Diego, California
An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.
Chicago, Illinois
A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.
Chicago, Illinois
This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.
Chicago, Illinois
What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Oravský Podzámok, Slovakia
The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."
Washington, D.C.
The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.
Morristown, Tennessee
All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
Inverness, California
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Wamba, Spain
One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.
Lampa, Peru
This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.