Places Mortuarism Wants to Go

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

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

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

At this multicultural hub, refugee chefs serve the foods they miss most from home.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

Happen to come across a dead eagle? Send it to America's official dead eagle warehouse.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.