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The skull of Lilias Adie, an accused witch, is superimposed over her face in this 2018 reconstruction by forensic artist Christopher Rynn.
cemeteries

Scottish Authorities Are Trying to Reunite a 'Witch' With Her Skull

Lilias Adie's head has been missing since 1938.
Sabrina Imbler September 9, 2019
Gore Hill Cemetery.
St Leonards, Australia

Gore Hill Cemetery

One of Sydney's oldest graveyards hides in plain sight behind a hospital.
Brooklyn, New York

Spritz Cookie Gravestone

This recipe is set in stone.
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Los Angeles, California

Odd Fellows Cemetery

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.
The alleged friar's grave.
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Friar's Bush Graveyard

Celebrated in poem, this tiny hidden cemetery has a big and grisly history.
The mass grave.
Flagstaff, Arizona

TWA-United Grand Canyon Collision Mass Grave

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.
Permanent collections.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Museum Tot Zover

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.
Richmond, Virginia

Evergreen Cemetery

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.
One side of the base of the Ashtabula Bridge Disaster Monument.
Ashtabula, Ohio

Ashtabula Bridge Disaster Monument

A monument to the “unrecognized dead” of the tragic 1876 train crash.
The cemetery.
Varenna, Italy

Varenna Cemetery

An unusual resting place built into the hill with an amazing view of Lake Como.
Gravestones with planes taking off above.
Atlanta, Georgia

Flat Rock and Hart Cemeteries

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.
Graveyard.
Inveresk, Scotland

St Michael's Parish Church and Kirkyard

This 19th-century sanctuary was built atop a hill that once housed a Roman fort.
Eston Hemings's grave.
Madison, Wisconsin

Eston Hemings's Grave

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.
William Saroyan's Grave.
Yerevan, Armenia

William Saroyan's Grave

Half of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ashes were buried in Armenia.
Harriet Tubman's Grave
Auburn, New York

Fort Hill Cemetery

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.
Cambridge, England

Ascension Parish Burial Ground

The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.
The original west gate.
Dundee, Scotland

The Howff Cemetery

People leave coins atop an unusual grave marker in one of Scotland's oldest burial grounds.
Right under our noses.
cemeteries

Found in a Cemetery: A New Species of Beetle

It's alive!
Matthew Taub August 5, 2019