Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Unwanted and reluctant ownership, Gordon Lamp glimmers faintly and serves as a relic of the bygone Victorian era.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Eerily lifelike effigies stare at everyone who enters this sanctuary.

A father’s love is immortalized by a unique dollhouse marking a young girl’s grave site.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

The Salvation Army's monument to those who lost their lives in a 1914 shipwreck near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.

Six separate cemeteries became one, on the grounds of a former schoolhouse.

Unique and somewhat surreal, this little girl's memorial depicts a playful Jesus.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

No one knows why this family’s graves stayed on the national museum's premises after all other tombstones were relocated.

This former hunting grounds that once attracted U.S. presidents and other luminaries. Now it’s a privately owned research reserve dedicated to environmental sciences.

The Father of the Erie Canal has a magnificent grave marker that redefines the term "final resting place."

This cemetery holds the remains of an accused witch and the man that ensured her freedom.

This graveyard is home to the so-called "Witch's Circle."

A cemetery that holds graves for the forgotten children of a burned orphanage.

Stroll around the headstones of notable figures from Knoxville's history, as well as towering monoliths and melancholic headstones.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

Remains of the lost church hide beneath this Spanish Parliament building.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.