New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
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New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Nervesa della Battaglia, Italy
Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.
Vienna, Austria
The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Asnières-sur-Seine, France
The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.
Norresundby, Denmark
This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.
Morne-A-l'Eau, Guadeloupe
At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.
Zlēkas parish, Latvia
The only things left in this abandoned Latvian graveyard are a mysterious stone and a ghost story.
Valparaiso, Chile
Hand-made memorials and a wish-granting murderer lie within this seaside pauper's cemetery.
Hearne, Texas
This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
Tilden, Texas
"They died with their boots on."
Key West, Florida
Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
San Francisco, California
Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.
London, England
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
Colma, California
The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.
Malmesbury, England
This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.
Princeton, Massachusetts
The haunting history of a little girl lost.
Barre, Massachusetts
Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.