Places Edited by Jason Michael Walker

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.