A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

Possible relics of the ancient Roman city are hidden in this restaurant's façade.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.