The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

America's first public mental health facility.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This small hilltop church weaves the urban history of Washington, D.C. with the national history of the United States.

A memorial to a shareholder activist feared by CEOs around the United States.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.