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The Living Dead Girl of Kensal Green Cemetery

Darmon Richter October 7, 2013
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The Mysterious Murder of the Beautiful Cigar Girl

Allison Meier October 4, 2013
Graves of Wild Bill and Calamity Jane
Deadwood, South Dakota

Mt. Moriah Cemetery

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
The statue of Tian Yi
Beijing, China

Tian Yi's Tomb

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.
Vienna, Austria

Cemetery of the Nameless

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.
Kaleüçağız Köyü, Turkey

Lycian Tomb Uçagiz

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.
Amiens cemetery, tomb of Jules Verne.
Amiens, France

Jules Verne's Tomb

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Grass Valley, California

Old St. Patrick's Cemetery

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.
The Relics of St. Helena
Paris, France

The Relic Crypt of St. Helena at Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.
The lush interior of the small monastery.
Snagov Island, Romania

Snagov Monastery

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).
Hartsdale, New York

Hartsdale Pet Cemetery

The first pet cemetery in the United States.
The International Space Station which will one day be at the bottom of the ocean.
New Zealand

Spacecraft Cemetery

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Daly City, California

Colma Necropolis

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.
Leeson's Grave
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Morbid Monday: Deciphering An Ominous Cryptogram on a Manhattan Tomb

Laetitia Barbier July 29, 2013
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Old Burial Ground

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mount Moriah Cemetery

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
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Clover Adams' Memorial: From a Husband Who Would No Longer Speak Her Name

Brian Clark July 23, 2013
Paris, France

Montparnasse Cemetery

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.