Boston, Massachusetts
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
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Boston, Massachusetts
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
Boston, Massachusetts
A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.
Boston, Massachusetts
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
Sharon, Massachusetts
She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.
Dedham, Massachusetts
This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.
Quincy, Massachusetts
The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."
Danvers, Massachusetts
This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.
Duxbury, Massachusetts
It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.
Griswold, Connecticut
The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.
Newport, Rhode Island
The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.
Middletown, Rhode Island
This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.
Newport, Rhode Island
The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.
Sandur, Faroe Islands
Every summer, women from this small Faroese island cover this specific stone with knitted graffiti.
Paris, France
This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.
Rochester, Massachusetts
Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.