Boston, Massachusetts
Forest Hills Cemetery
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
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Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Rochester, New York
A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.
Griswold, Connecticut
The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.
North Adams, Massachusetts
This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.
Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland
A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.
Hartsdale, New York
The first pet cemetery in the United States.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey
One of New Jersey's oldest churches is a historical treasure trove.
New York, New York
You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.
Brooklyn, New York
Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.
Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Brooklyn, New York
One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.
Lisbon, Portugal
An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Los Angeles, California
Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.
Culver City, California
A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.
West Hollywood, California
An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."
Los Angeles, California
Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.
Los Angeles, California
Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."