Daily Dose of Death

The Body Chute of Waverly Hills: Inside Kentucky’s Most Haunted Tuberculosis Hospital

The driveway up Waverly Hill is longer than you expect. Dense Louisville woodland climbs with you...

The kirkyard looks, at first, like any other historic Scottish churchyard — leaning headstones,...

The Thames curves south past the ancient walls of the Tower of London, and six ravens — legally...

The blue sandstone walls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum rise four stories against the West...

There are staircases in the Winchester Mystery House that lead straight into the ceiling. There...

On the morning of June 10, 1912, Mary Peckham, who lived next door to the Moore family in...

The Myrtles Plantation rises above Bayou Sara in St. Francisville, Louisiana — a white-columned...

The iron door of Cell Block 4 closes with a clang that carries through a corridor where daylight...

The trajinera leaves Embarcadero Cuemanco around noon, punted south into the stretch of canal...

The Archaeological Survey of India posts the same notice at hundreds of monuments across India —...