A museum dedicated to the famous Mexican illustrator's iconic calaveras.

The corner walls of a primary school showcase a Mexican version of memento mori.

This restored opera house is named after a soprano known for tragic romance, exile, and a truly uncomfortable wedding.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

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

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

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

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.