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Lancaster County
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster Cemetery

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."
Medb's Cairn
Sligo, Ireland

Medb's Cairn

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.
Station Fire site, six years after the tragedy
West Warwick, Rhode Island

Station Fire Memorial Park

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Falmouth, Massachusetts

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s Grave

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.
Boothill Cemetery.
Tombstone, Arizona

Boothill Graveyard

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.
Triangle shirtwaist fire
Brooklyn, New York

The Evergreens Cemetery

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.
The Brooklyn Theatre Fire obelisk.
Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Theatre Fire Memorial

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.
Barcelona, Spain

Montjuïc Cemetery

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.
Memorial to the Mt. Erebus crash
Auckland, New Zealand

Waikumete Cemetery

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.
Someone (or something) has killed the grass around it for...reasons.
Salt Lake City, Utah

Victim of the Beast Gravestone

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.
Many ornate statues and obelisks are used as markers here.
Sacramento, California

Sacramento Old City Cemetery

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.
London, England

Crossbones Graveyard

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
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Nokhur Cemetery
Nokhur, Turkmenistan

Nokhur Cemetery

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
Boston, Massachusetts

Forest Hills Cemetery

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
The cemetery's entrance sign pays homage to the creatures buried there.
Cherokee, Alabama

Key Underwood Coon Dog Cemetery

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.
Mbour, Senegal

Fadiouth Shell Island

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.