The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

This mysterious runestone embedded in a church wall is linked to the medieval cult of Saint Erik.

The interior of this Serbian royal family's mausoleum is covered with exquisite mosaics.

This Gothic church houses ornate royal tombs and a magnificent gilded altarpiece.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.