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Memento Mori

A Final Resting Place for Rodeo Bulls & Good Horses

Allison Meier August 14, 2014

Human Teeth Discovered in a Gruesome 18th-Century Christ Statue

Allison Meier August 13, 2014

Today Me, Tomorrow You: Rome's Sculptural Skeletons

Elizabeth Harper July 29, 2014

The S.S. Imo after the explosion

Abandon Ship: 5 Maritime Disasters Lost to Time

Sarah Blake July 28, 2014

Modern Mortality: A Q&A with "American Afterlife" Author Kate Sweeney

Allison Meier July 16, 2014

Mortuary Bag No. 41

Halifax, Nova Scotia

The Titanic Mortuary Bag

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

Brooklyn, New York

Most Holy Trinity Cemetery

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

The Mummies of Mexico City

Elizabeth Harper April 23, 2014

Curious Fact of the Week: The Macabre Humor of Romania's Merry Cemetery

Allison Meier February 3, 2014

Wellcome Library Releases 100,000 Images of Art, History, and the Morbidly Strange

Atlas Obscura January 22, 2014

Irish Memorial at Penn's Landing

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Irish Memorial at Penn's Landing

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

Morbid Monday: Woeful Tales of Dying for Strangers Collected on a London Wall

Allison Meier November 4, 2013

The Hanging Coffins on the Cliffs

Allison Meier October 27, 2013

The Triumph of Death

The Triumph of Death

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

31 days of halloween

The Miniature Coffin of Captain Cook

Benjamin Breen October 14, 2013

31 days of halloween

Death Cuts the Life-Thread

Allison Meier October 13, 2013

31 days of halloween

The Corpse of a Cave Explorer That Became a Tourist Attraction

Allison Meier October 12, 2013

The Raven Room

Charlottesville, Virginia

The Raven Room

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.