Places Mortuarism Wants to Go

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

Two dozen rescued bears roam (mostly) free at the largest bear ranch in the U.S.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.