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Cemeteries

Digitizing gravestones from the colonial era preserves them for future study and makes them more accessible, but it also raises questions about how to study this period of American history.

Burial Hill's Historic Gravestones Are Coming to Your Screen

Digitizing markers at the Massachusetts cemetery makes them more accessible.

Anya Gruber May 8, 2023

Gold, Ghosts, and Gin: The Curious Spirits and Elaborate History of Virginia City

This one-time boomtown still oozes with the spirit of the Wild West.

Sponsored by Travel Nevada

Westerveld Crematorium, built in 1913

Driehuis, Netherlands

Westerveld Crematorium

The first crematorium in the Netherlands.

One of the 2.000 mummified ram heads found in the Temple of Ramses II, in the historical city of Abydos, Egypt.

Wonder Is Everywhere: 2,000 Ram Skulls, a Cold War Mystery, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

April White April 14, 2023

Some families even set up a full spread on a picnic table.

Why Georgians Dine in Cemeteries for Orthodox Easter

Honoring the dead sometimes means breaking bread with them.

Helena Bedwell April 13, 2023

Combs, Arkansas

False Crypts of Brashears Cemetery

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

Bruges, Belgium

Centrale Begraafplaats Brugge Assebroek

The oldest cemetery in Belgium.

Cementerio General

Santiago, Chile

Cementerio General de Santiago

The largest cemetery in Chile is the final resting place for more than 2 million people, from politicians to artists.

The grave of Philip K. Dick.

Fort Morgan, Colorado

Grave of Philip K. Dick

The final resting place of a legendary science fiction author and his fraternal twin sister who died as an infant.

Podcast: More Wonders in Your Backyard

Our team tells tales of everyday awe.

The Podcast Team March 9, 2023

St. Louis, Missouri

Marconnott Mausoleum

When Joseph Marconnott died, he had a unique final wish: to be mummified and put on display.

Vaslav Nijinsky’s Grave

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

View of Golden Horn at Pierre Loti Hill.

Istanbul, Turkey

Pierre Loti Hill

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

Snoopy

Monacnappa, Ireland

Blarney Castle Horse Graveyard

Horse cemetery on the grounds of Blarney Castle.

Catawissa, Pennsylvania

The Catawissa Caged Graves

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.

Bobb Ross's headstone, photographed in February 2021.

Bob Ross's Grave

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

The Hufstedler Gravehouse

Linden, Tennessee

Pinckney's Tomb

A house built specifically to shelter the dead.

Ol Pejeta Rhino Cemetery

The memorial honors the lives of rhinoceroses killed by poachers.