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Mr. Rogers' grave, Unity Cemetery
Latrobe, Pennsylvania

The Grave of Mister Rogers

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Los Angeles, California

Toto Canine Movie Star Memorial Marker

Because there's no place like home.
Jack Norworth Memorial Marker
Anaheim, California

Jack Norworth Memorial Marker

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."
The Dell
Boston, Massachusetts

Central Burying Ground

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.
Dissidents Cemetery
Valparaiso, Chile

The Dissidents Cemetery

This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.
St. Michael's is an 18th century octagonal church
Madeley, England

St Michael's Church & the Nine Men of Madeley

This tranquil churchyard in the heart of England’s mining country whispers tales of both triumph and tragedy.
Detroit Crematorium columbarium @ Woodmere Cemetery:
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Why the First Cremation in the U.S. Was So Controversial

It was a scandalous topic before Dr. Francis Julius LeMoyne in 1876.
Amy Elliott Bragg May 23, 2016
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British Cemetery Haunted by Peanut-Butter-Loving Baby Fox

After trapping its head in a peanut butter jar, the fox kit spooked visitors by banging the jar against a gravestone.
Jessie Guy-Ryan May 22, 2016
Hangman's Elm
New York, New York

The Hangman's Elm

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.
St Katherine's Memorial Chapel, Landsberg am Lech
Landsberg am Lech, Germany

Leper's Chapel and Ossuary

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.
Permanently Closed
Bowen Building
Bartonville, Illinois

Peoria State Hospital

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.
Cemetery
Geneva, Illinois

Illinois State Training School Cemetery

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.
Along the garden at St. Nicholas
Whitehaven, England

Mildred Gale's Burial Site

The final resting place of George Washington's Grandma.
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The Efforts to Identify the Lost Souls of America's Potter's Fields

From New York's Hart Island to Dunn County, Wisconsin, experts and volunteers alike work to provide closure to the families of those interred in unmarked graves.
Jessie Guy-Ryan May 15, 2016
Souda, Greece

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
Putim Ossuary
Putim, Czechia

Putim Ossuary

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Cham, Germany

Chammünster Ossuary

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
A landscape of graves in the Ground.
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Old Burying Ground

This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.