A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.