This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

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

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

A large instrument played by the wind.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.