re "ghoulishness" &c -psychiatric exhibit in replicated hospital at Colonial Williamsburg includes a video of an actor in the horizontal wire cage used for confinement at one of the periods of treatment illustrated there -various historic sites associated with the conspirators in Lincoln's assassination -not a museum exhibit, but listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the "one million liter test sphere" at Fort Dietrick, Frederick, Maryland, formerly used in testing biological warfare gasses &c -many battlefield exhibits have deeply bloody angles, forgive me Civil War fans--including "The Bloody Angle" on Spotsylvania Battlefield, the place on Chancellorsville Battlefield where Jackson was wounded, the site of the burial of Jackson's arm (Ellwood, a National Park Service-owned site, not yet open to the public) -archaeologically, the coffins of (probably) Calvert family members recently dug up at St. Mary's City, Maryland -Pine Street Jail, Baltimore -every year, historic preservation students at Mary Washington College stage "Ghostwalk," leading people through Fredericksburg to sites of famous sightings of ghosts (actors portray ghosts or those who "saw" them) -and more, but that may suggest the great variety of possibilities "outside the museum building" John John Pearce Center for Historic Preservation Mary Washington College [log in to unmask]