Over the weekend travel fans voted on the number one U.S. cemetery they would visit -- that one final resting spot with the right mix of creepy and h...
Posted 01.04.2012
Police in Russia have taken a man into custody after discovering that he had at least 20 dressed-up female corpses hidden in his apartment. Authori...
The Huffington Post | Evan Allis | Posted 12.21.2011
In the song "Black Jesus," Tupac Shakur says: "My last wishes n**gas, smoke my ashes." Whether the line articulates the late rapper's final wishes...
Posted 12.20.2011
That which is buried six-feet-under, should probably remain six-feet-under. So when one Iowa woman visited her relatives in Lehigh's Oak Grove Ceme...
Posted 12.11.2011
Exploring history can take on many guises, from dusty tomes to cinematic recreations, lecture halls to physical monuments. Yet one of the most basic w...
Posted 09.05.2011
While massive budget cuts threaten the existence of a program that pays funeral homes and cemeteries to honor and bury deceased individuals whose fami...
Posted 05.25.2011
Equal parts solemn and spooky, moving and intriguing, cemeteries are worth a visit the world over. Just in time for Halloween, we have selected fif...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
EAST FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Thieves vandalized mausoleums at a Catholic cemetery on Long Island and stole a woman's remains during an overnight break-i...
Thomas Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011
When archbishops partner with moguls, whether prayed over or preyed upon, consumers need all the protections they can get. It's time to pass the Bereaved Consumer Bill of Rights, with no exemptions.
Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011
Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011
I love Manhattan cemeteries like Marble, in part because of how annoyed they must make developers -- these are multi-million dollar plots of land permanently dedicated for rotting remains.
Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011
Staring down 54th Street in Woodside, Queens, lined with boxy brick apartments, one would not expect to find one of the oldest cemeteries in New York nestled in amongst the buildings.
Bonnie Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
My mom is fed up with being dead and now she's especially turning in her grave due to ridiculous indignities she's being subjected to. Here's why!
Posted 05.22.2012