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An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.