It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

The magic's in the hole!

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

What appears to be an ancient Roman temple is actually a Catholic church.

Venice's island of the dead.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

This small museum is home to cannons cast by Paul Revere and the last remaining uniform of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Constructed in 1676, this stone memorial is believed to be the oldest veteran's memorial in the United States.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

This plaque honors the unsung Black songstress once known as the “greatest singer of her race.”

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.