Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

An exhibit of items from the mental institution where Mary Todd Lincoln lived after her son conspired to have her committed.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.