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remcrae

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artist. sometimes writer about the internet and cognition and "Benjaminian Fossil"-type symbolic repetition across time. into the structural dynamics of post-revolutionary historiography. thinks dogs are awesome. likes a good beer, peaty scotch, hunks of cheese, pickles and old port.

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Mortsafe at Greyfriars Cemetery

Edinburgh, Scotland

Greyfriars Cemetery Mortsafes

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Historical Marker

Rochester, New York

The Table That Could Talk To The Dead

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Apparent Dead House in the Hague

The Hague, Netherlands

Apparent Dead House in the Hague

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

Uplistsikhe Cave Town

Georgia

Uplistsikhe Cave Town

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

Gergeti Trinity Church against the Caucasus backdrop

Georgia

Gergeti Trinity Church

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Standing in the middle of Almendres Cromlech

Évora, Portugal

Almendres Cromlech

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

Melník Chapel of Bones

Melnik, Czechia

Melník Chapel of Bones

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

A giant concrete Ichthyosaur beckons you to explore the park.

Austin, Nevada

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Secret - Abandoned Brothel
Permanently Closed

Litchfield, California

Secret - Abandoned Brothel

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Salmagundi West
Permanently Closed

Vancouver, British Columbia

Salmagundi West

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

A rusted fleet sits crumbling in the sunbaked desert

Muynak District, Uzbekistan

Moynaq

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

Close-up on the work on one of the ships (www.jungle.eu)

Gaddani, Pakistan

Ship Breaking Yard of Gadani

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

Bhangarh Fort

Bhangarh, India

Bhangarh Fort

This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.

United States Minor Outlying Islands

Jarvis Ghost Island

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.

Balestrino Ghost Village

Balestrino, Italy

Balestrino Ghost Village

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Postcard of the ghost town cemetery.

Terlingua, Texas

Terlingua Ghost Town

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The lower set of petroglyphs

Bellows Falls, Vermont

Bellows Falls Petroglyphs

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Oradour

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Oradour

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Fêtes de l’Ours (Festival of the Bears)

Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste, France

Fêtes de l’Ours (Festival of the Bears)

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

Forbest Pigment Museum

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Forbes Pigment Collection

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A collection of West Mexican tomb figures at the Hudson Museum.

Orono, Maine

Hudson Museum

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

Skulls at the Fetish Market

Lome, Togo

Akodessewa Fetish Market

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

A boat coffin in 1960 (WikiCommons)

Accra, Ghana

Ga-Adangbe Caskets - Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

St. Maurice Abbey.

Saint-Maurice, Switzerland

Abbey St. Maurice d'Agaune

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

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