Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.