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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.