This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.