Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The burial place of 14 of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising.

A collection of housewares from recent Irish history adjoined by a tower from ancient Irish history.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.