Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

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

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.