In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

This recipe is set in stone.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

A historic cemetery with unique artwork, a Civil War fort, and also happens to be the site of the Battle of Bladensburg.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

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

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.