This former small-town cinema palace was built with the remains of a luxury liner.

These mysterious religious carvings were once thought to be thousands of years old but are actually the work of modern eccentric.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Venice's island of the dead.

Pyramid shaped monument with a tall tale attached.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.