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Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology
Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal AnthropologyOnce only open to academics, "Lombroso's Museum" has opened its doors to the public revealing the astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist As...
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The Museum of Death
The Museum of DeathWorld's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibitsThe Museum of Death, a showcase of just that, was originally founded in San Diego in 1995. In 2000,...
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Bohemian National Cemetery
Bohemian National CemeteryCemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbariumA cemetery on the north side of Chicago, Illinois, the Bohemian National Cemetery was established by some of the members of...
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The tomb of Rufina Cambacérès
The tomb of Rufina Cambacérès A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin… The Cementario de la Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is easily one of the most beautiful...
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The Merry Cemetery
The Merry CemeterySmall-town Romanian cemetery filled with darkly humorous gravestones When someone dies, their memory generally enters a kind of idealized state in the minds of those who loved them....
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Grave of Peter, the Wild Boy of Hanover
Grave of Peter, the Wild Boy of Hanover"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation"In 1725, a young boy was discovered in the woods outside of the German town of...
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Pomuch Cemetery
Pomuch CemeteryIn Pomuch Cemetery in Campeche, Mexico once a year the dead are taken out for a cleaningMany are familiar with the now well known Mexican Day of the Dead Celebration held on Nov. 2nd...
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Mystery Tomb
Mystery TombA three-centuries-old crypt in the foothills of an old plantationTobago is the smaller island of the twin republic of Trinidad & Tobago, and not without its own unique wonders and...
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Boston's Old Burying Grounds
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Fontanelle Cemetery Caves
Fontanelle Cemetery CavesThe plague of 1656 and the bombings of WWII united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient deadLike many ossuaries in Europe, the Cimitero Fontanelle began as an...
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Highgate Cemetery
Highgate CemeteryLondon's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire huntersOpened in 1839, Highgate is one of London's most infamous cemeteries. Among...
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Chaukhandi Tombs
Chaukhandi TombsReputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvingsIf you're going to bury someone above ground, the container should probably be both secure and reverent. This...
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The Wreck of the Peter Iredale
The Wreck of the Peter Iredale100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tideThe Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque sailing vessel that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast...
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Carmo Convent Ruins
Carmo Convent RuinsLegacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth"Come, ye philosophers, who cry, 'All’s well,' and contemplate this ruin of a world." -Voltaire, 1756 One...
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Los Feliz Murder Mansion
Los Feliz Murder MansionLeft untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz mansion remains a neighborhood mysteryOn the night of December 6, 1959, in a mansion that sits on a Los...
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Enchanted Forest Theme Park
Enchanted Forest Theme ParkRemnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mallOpening in 1955 (a month after Disneyland), The Enchanted Forest was a roadside amusement park in Ellicott...
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Leadville's Abandoned Silver Mine
Leadville's Abandoned Silver MineAbandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structuresImmediately east of the town of Leadville, is the site of a vast abandoned silver mine. Pocked with all...
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Nevada County Hospital
Nevada County HospitalAbandoned hospital with sinister history lies empty on the edge of town it served for 150 years.Though it served different purposes throughout the years, the Nevada County...
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The Nitrate Towns of Chile
The Nitrate Towns of ChileTowns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly emptyUntil 1909, Chile had something very special. Known as white gold,...
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Chernobyl's Ghost Cities
Chernobyl's Ghost CitiesVisit the abandoned towns left by the worst nuclear disaster of all timeWhen one thinks of Chernobyl, vacation spot is certainly not the first thing to come to mind. However,...
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