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Loneliest Graves

A cemetery surrounded by a coal mine in West Virginia.

The Mountaintop Cemeteries Surrounded by Coal Mines

Hard to access and hemmed in by explosive activity, these graveyards are stuck in limbo.

Jessica Leigh Hester October 30, 2018

A notched stake marked a burial place.

An Underwater Grave Site Was Untouched for 7,000 Years

Once far above sea level, this gravesite is now deep under the ocean.

Sarah Laskow October 29, 2018

The markers in the whalers' graveyard, in the background, were replaced in the 1980s.

The Abandoned Graveyards on a Thawing Arctic Island

Climate change is causing trouble on Herschel Island.

Jessica Leigh Hester October 26, 2018

A small amount of cremated remains are on board New Horizons, which hurtled past Pluto and toward the edge of our solar system.

The Grave Farthest From Earth Is on a Spacecraft Headed Out of Our Solar System

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, and then hitched a ride toward it.

Jessica Leigh Hester September 6, 2022

Rebecca Winters' Grave, Scottsbluff, Nebraska

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

The train station, long since abandoned.

The Most Isolated War Grave of the British Commonwealth Is in the Namibian Desert

In 1915, South African forces fought Germans for control of territory in southern Africa.

Sarah Laskow October 23, 2018