Places Edited by PrestonW

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

The unusual private collection of modern-day renaissance man George Musgrave.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

A towering baroque basilica jutting out of the French countryside.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.