Places nikisb Wants to Go

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.