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

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

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

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.