Edinburgh, Scotland
Greyfriars Cemetery Mortsafes
Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.
Rochester, New York
The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.
The Hague, Netherlands
A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.
Georgia
Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.
Georgia
Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.
Évora, Portugal
"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Austin, Nevada
Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!
Litchfield, California
Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.
Muynak District, Uzbekistan
Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.
Gaddani, Pakistan
The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.
Bhangarh, India
This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
Balestrino, Italy
Abandoned medieval hill town.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Bellows Falls, Vermont
These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, France
Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.
Orono, Maine
Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.
Lome, Togo
The Voodoo Superstore of the world.
Accra, Ghana
The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.
Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.