Tsuruoka, Japan
Sokushinbutsu of Dainichibou Temple
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
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Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Tokyo, Japan
Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.
Tokyo, Japan
The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.
Tokyo, Japan
This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.
Los Angeles, California
Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
Frankfort, Kentucky
This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.
Uppsala, Sweden
This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.
Topola, Serbia
The interior of this Serbian royal family's mausoleum is covered with exquisite mosaics.
Burgos, Spain
This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.
Hanover, Germany
Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.
Milford, New Hampshire
A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Louisville, Kentucky
This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.
Liège, Belgium
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
New York, New York
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."
New Orleans, Louisiana
The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.