Places Marz Vein Wants to Go

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.