Houston, Texas
National Museum of Funeral History
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
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Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Vienna, Austria
Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
West Wycombe, England
Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Chicago, Illinois
A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Klevan, Ukraine
This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.
Wallachia, Romania
The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Guoliang, China
A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
London, England
English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
London, England
Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.
England
A historic house left in "dramatic still life."
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Bridgeport, California
Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?