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State Hospital Memorial Marker For Traverse Colantha Walker.
Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse Colantha Walker's Grave

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.
Resurrectionist.
Stirling, Scotland

Grave Robbing Headstone

A grave marker depicting a body snatching tableau on a 19th-century tombstone.
Tomb of William Walker.
Trujillo, Honduras

Grave of Filibuster William Walker

Fenced off in a garden cemetery in Honduras lies the grave of the most notorious American filibuster.
Grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Florence, Italy

The English Cemetery

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.
Marble Memento Mori.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands

Beth Haim Cemetery

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.
cemeteries

The True Story Behind America's Most 'Metal' Cemetery

Metallic gravestones, as it turns out, don't age well.
Lizzie Philip December 12, 2018
A Columbarios Roman burial ground funerary inhumation exhibition pictured in Merida, Extremadura, Spain.
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The Ancient Roman Libation Tubes That Connected the Living to the Dead

Families poured offerings through vessels directly installed into graves.
Teresa Bitler October 31, 2018
<em>The Kiss of Death</em>, designed by Joan Fonternat and carved by Jaume Barba in 1930, in Barcelona’s Poblenau Cemetery. It marks the grave of textile manufacturer Josep Llaudet Soler.
cemeteries

In Search of Cemeteries Alive With Beauty, Art, and History

These resting places celebrate life.
Anika Burgess October 31, 2018
Some of the fine funeral-related offerings from Sears.
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Sears Once Offered Mail-Order Tombstones

Its beloved catalogue had a good run.
Evan Nicole Brown October 30, 2018
Rex the Wonder Dog's grave.
pet cemeteries

The Final Resting Places of 7 Famous Dogs

Man's best friend in life and death.
Meg Neal October 30, 2018
Houdini's Grave.
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4 Grave Secrets From New York's Past

In the spirit of Halloween, consider a tour of graveyards, memorials, and other places in touch with the afterlife.
Sarah Laskow October 30, 2018
Tatsuya Ezura's eggplant Cessna.
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The Cucumber Horses and Eggplant Cows That Welcome Back the Dead

During the Japanese summer festival Obon, ancestral spirits come home.
Ellen Freeman October 26, 2018
Mount Hope Cemetery
Bangor, Maine

Mount Hope Cemetery

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.
Rebecca Winters' Grave, Scottsbluff, Nebraska
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A Mormon Pioneer's Grave, Marked Only With a Wagon Wheel Rim

Rebecca Winters's grave is one of the few that were marked at all.
Sarah Laskow October 24, 2018
"Life preserving coffin in doubtful cases of actual dead," a safety-coffin model by Christian Eisenbrandt.
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History's Best Strategies for Avoiding Being Buried Alive

These ingenious 19th-century techniques aimed to make sure dead really meant dead.
Ashawnta Jackson October 23, 2018
The Tinker mausoleum.
North Adams, Massachusetts

Hillside Cemetery

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Huis te Vraag Cemetery

An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.
Joel Walker Sweeney gravemarker.
Appomattox, Virginia

Joel Sweeney's Grave

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.