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urban planning

Could Urban Algae Farms Clean Up Our Air?

skulls

Objects of Intrigue: Every Skull Has a Story

essential guide

A Graphic Guide to Space Animals

dictators

Mussolini's Secret Bunker Now Open After 70 Years

festivals

Photographs from Mexico's Day of the Dead, Where Candles and Heaps of Marigolds Draw out the Spirits

story

Creepypasta, the Science of Fear, and All the Days of the Dead: Roundup Obscura, Halloween Edition

31 days of halloween

The Worst Ghosts of the Southwest

bat caves

From Elephant Tongues to Faulty Air Conditioners: The Geographical Origins of Deadly Diseases

suicide

The Suicide Caves Beneath St. Louis

essential guide

A Graphic Guide to Cemetery Symbolism

sharks

Lionfish Kabobs: Teaching Old Sharks New Tastes

dracula

Dracula’s Chamber: The Dark Legend of Buda Castle Labyrinth

list

Ghost Islands: Eight of the Eeriest Abandoned Places on the Seas

skeletons

In an Oklahoma Museum: All the Gory Details and Beetles of Skeleton Preparation

seen from space

Landscapes Made for Satellite Eyes: Calibration Targets, Resolution Tests, and Giant Desert Compasses

31 days of halloween

Secrets Taken to the Grave

insane asylum cemeteries

America's Abandoned Insane Asylum Cemeteries

morbid monday

Morbid Monday: The Macabre Romance of a Man and a Mummy

Using plaster of Paris, wires, mortician’s wax, and glass eyes, Tanzler brought Elena “back to life,” and proceeded to take her to his home where the pair shared a marital bed.