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boats

A Survey of the Most Ridiculous Anti-Drowning Devices of the 1800s

Victorian life preservers invited both drowning and mockery.
Natalie Zarrelli August 4, 2016
Soyuz 11 memorial in original form
Zhanaarka District, Kazakhstan

Soyuz 11 Memorial

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.
Corpsey is finally opening up to us.
death

New York's Favorite Corpse Flower Is Finally Blooming

Watch the celebrity plant event of the season!
Cara Giaimo July 28, 2016
death

Why Pokémon Go Players Are Going to Keep Finding Dead Bodies

It happens every day.
Sarah Laskow July 15, 2016
Aokigahara Forest
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan

Aokigahara Forest

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
death

Would You Like To Be Buried In A Giant Eco-Egg?

Capsula Mundi wants to make human burial green.
Eric Grundhauser July 8, 2016
objects of intrigue

In the 16th Century, the Best Office Decor was a Tiny Rotting Corpse

Miniature memento moris were all the rage for around 300 years.
Ella Morton May 31, 2016
body snatching

How The Medical Cadaver Finally Got the Respect it Deserves

The rise and fall of medical cadaver ceremonies.
Natalie Zarrelli May 26, 2016
Down the Canal Ahogada.
El Salto, Mexico

The Deadly Rio Lerma

The Rio Lerma (Chignahuapan) in El Salto, Mexico, is one of the most polluted rivers in the world. It’s covered in white foam, and falling in can kill.
Detroit Crematorium columbarium @ Woodmere Cemetery:
cemeteries

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
mummies

This Egyptian Coffin Held the Smallest Known Mummified Fetus

It's a very tiny coffin.
Erik Shilling May 11, 2016
Minakami, Japan

Mount Tanigawa

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.
music

How Prince Took Over Minnesota

On the singer's long devotion to his home state.
Erik Shilling April 21, 2016
rites and rituals

The Self-Sacrificing Japanese Pilgrims Who Chose to be Swallowed by the Sea

For 1,000 years, Buddhists in Japan sealed themselves into boats and let the waves carry them.
Jacob Mikanowski April 12, 2016
A structure within the the doongerwadi complex.
Mumbai, India

Tower of Silence in Mumbai

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.
Voltaire in marble resting atop his real, fleshy heart (as captured in 1924)
Paris, France

The Heart of Voltaire

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
animals

Prairie Dogs Don't Eat Meat—So Why Are They Serially Killing Squirrels?

The vegetarian animals regularly massacre squirrels, which they may see as rivals.
Erik Shilling March 23, 2016
death

Why Forensic Anthropologists Want to Bury Bodies Around L.A.

There is a scientific explanation for this.
Emma E. Kemp March 23, 2016