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The pub, pictured circa 1990.
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How a Dublin Pub Became a Haunt for Gravediggers and Ghosts Alike

The watering hole sits next to a cemetery and has stories to match.
Valentina Valentini October 29, 2018
A charnel house at the Saints Innocents Cemetery, Paris.
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In 1590, Starving Parisians Ground Human Bones Into Bread

During a siege, desperation drove people to disinter skeletons from cemeteries.
Emily Monaco October 29, 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.
"Sacred," carved in gothic script on a Victorian gravestone with ivy.
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What Can a Linguist Learn From a Gravestone?

Plenty, it turns out.
Dan Nosowitz October 26, 2018
The markers in the whalers' graveyard, in the background, were replaced in the 1980s.
cemeteries

The Abandoned Graveyards on a Thawing Arctic Island

Climate change is causing trouble on Herschel Island.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 26, 2018
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Union Soldiers Buried Their Dead in Robert E. Lee’s Garden

Before Arlington was a national cemetery, it was the Lee homestead, and then a tent city for occupying troops.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 26, 2018
The Avoca Museum in Altavista, Virginia.
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The Hidden History of African-American Burial Sites in the Antebellum South

Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.
Evan Nicole Brown October 25, 2018
Plants grow in graves at Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia.
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A Year Gardening the Grave of a Stranger

At Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia, green-thumbed volunteers participate in a unique program.
Sydney Schaedel October 25, 2018
Cudham Churchyard in London. This looks about right.
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Why England Once Forced Everyone to Be Buried in Wool

Transgressors had to pay a heavy fine.
Matthew Taub October 25, 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 Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park and Crematorium.
pet cemeteries

How Do You Accidentally End Up Running a Pet Cemetery?

Shera Danese-Falk knows.
Melissa Batchelor Warnke October 23, 2018
The entrance to the cemetery.
Calabasas, California

Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.
What would you most like to eat when you're dead?
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What Food or Drink Would You Want People to Leave at Your Grave?

You know, in case being dead turns out to make you hungry.
Eric Grundhauser October 22, 2018
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Here Lies E. Coli

There's a bunch of gross stuff, besides human bodies, hiding under graveyards.
Sarah Laskow October 22, 2018
Taukkyan War Cemetery.
Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)

Taukkyan War Cemetery

Myanmar's beautiful cemetery for Allied soldiers who perished during World War II.
This image displays the Lithuanian corner of the cemetery. The Croat section is nearby in a heavily wooded area.
Roslyn, Washington

Roslyn Cemetery

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.
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.