This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

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

Some of the most enduring novels in English literature were written within the walls of this Georgian-era building.

The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

This unusually-named reservoir found a second life as a nature preserve.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Featuring the largest CinemaScope screen in Pennsylvania, this drive-in has entertained moviegoers for more than half a century.

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

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

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.