London, England
Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
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London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
Liverpool, England
Pyramid shaped monument with a tall tale attached.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Griswold, Connecticut
The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
New York, New York
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.
Princeton, New Jersey
One man's lifelong obsession with death.
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
Beaufort, North Carolina
Burial site more than 300 years old.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Ottawa, Ontario
This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.
Camden, Tennessee
An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.
Chicago, Illinois
These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.
Chicago, Illinois
A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."
Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
Dawson, Pennsylvania
A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
Atlanta, Georgia
Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.
Liberty, Missouri
The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Sanca, British Columbia
This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.