The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Mummies preserved naturally for seven centuries.

This house covered in art created with volcanic rocks is shrouded in macabre lore.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.