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Spookiest US Cemeteries: What's Your Favorite?

Posted 05.21.2012

We are two weeks into HuffPost Travel's Ultimate Destination Challenge and we've just crowned your most beloved overlooked attraction. North Dakota's ...

PHOTOS: The Joy Of Estonia's Community Swings

Meg Pier | Posted 05.05.2012

Meg Pier

A time-honored gathering spot for Estonians is the community swing. I saw these structures all over the country in my travels, huge wooden platforms that can accommodate a crowd.

Arlington Cemetery Making More Room For Remains

AP | Posted 11.30.2011

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Officials at Arlington National Cemetery are breaking ground on a new columbarium that's expected to hold the cremated remains of mo...

Slave Cemetery Discovered In Florida

AP | By MATT SEDENSKY | Posted 01.10.2012

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A 19th-century cemetery, believed to hold the remains of slaves, has been uncovered at a former cotton plantation in Florida,...

Worms, Germany: Centuries Of Jewish History Distilled

Alan Elsner | Posted 01.09.2012

Alan Elsner

In the adjoining museum devoted to the history of the Jews of Worms, there is a chilling photograph of the synagogue going up in flames during Kristallnacht.

Doing Death Before it Does Us

Donna Henes | Posted 12.28.2011

Donna Henes

Halloween descends from Samhain, the most significant holiday of the Celtic calendar.

PHOTOS: 8 Creepy Bone Churches in Europe

BootsnAll | Posted 12.18.2011

BootsnAll

Bone churches, called ossuaries, can be found in several countries in Europe and range from piles of decorated skulls to pieces of wall art made up of various human bones.

PHOTOS: Among The Fashionable Deceased In Buenos Aires

Patrick McGinnis | Posted 10.14.2011

Patrick McGinnis

Argentina's economy has been a roller coaster for much of the last 75 years, and many of the families represented at Recoleta have seen better days. So have their tombs.

A Sunday Drive

Randi Miller | Posted 11.20.2011

Randi Miller

My parents and I wound our way into D.C. and my father parked the car behind some obscure but fancy little church. As we walked toward the church, my father announced that this is where they were to be buried.

Astoria Characters: The Grave New Widow

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.20.2011

Nancy Ruhling

It was Marion's second date with Michael M. Smith, and he asked her whether she wanted to see his cemetery. She found herself at the Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead, the city's oldest house that's still used as a private home.

Michael McLaughlin

Laid To Rest: Woman Hurt During Graveyard Hanky Panky

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 11.15.2011

A 39-year-old woman was rushed to a New Jersey hospital after a gravestone rolled over her leg while she may have been engaged in a sexual act, accord...

Marnie Weber's "Eternity Forever"

Tanja M. Laden | Posted 05.25.2011

Tanja M. Laden

While Marnie Weber's unique brand of sculpture, collage, and assemblage might appear to be redefining multimedia, it's also part of an ever-evolving tradition that defines California art.

A Small Group of People Meet in Harlem

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Alan Singer

Tait's film is a powerful depiction of the history of race in New York City. It's great strength is that it shows Blacks as historical actors battling for freedom and rights rather than as just victims of savage injustices.

Explosives Found At Second Avenue Cemetery, Say NYPD

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A caretaker doing gardening work at a historic cemetery dug up a plastic garbage bag containing military-grade explosives last year a...

Natural Burial Is Gaining Ground: Advocates Are Speaking Up Across North America

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Anne Dilenschneider

Throughout the United States there is increasing interest in natural burial as a way to honor lives that have been lived with care for the planet.

WATCH: Luxury Cemetery Takes Serbia By Storm

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Serbia's Branicevo county is taking the term "rest in peace" to an entirely new level, with an unusual cemetery that aims to offer its residents all o...

Bamboozles, Sacred and Secular

Thomas Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011

Thomas Lynch

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.

Natural Burial Is a Gentler Way to Leave

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Anne Dilenschneider

Commercial funeral practices put gallons of embalming fluid, and tons of metal and exotic hardwoods into the ground. And I was surprised to learn that cremation is equally polluting and energy-intensive.

Natural Burial Expo 2010: Learn How to "Green" Your Farewell

Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Anne Dilenschneider

The Natural Burial Expo 2010 is being held on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday April 25, 2010 at St. Paul's Christian Church in Raleigh, NC. Organizers r...

Memorial Day - What Have We Wrought?

Marcia Meier | Posted 05.25.2011

Marcia Meier

I went to the cemetery yesterday. Sat by the garden and looked up at the brass plaque on the mausoleum wall that marks my parents' last resting place....

No Man Left Behind: Not Just an Expression

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011

Megan Smolenyak

This weekend, please take a moment to remember those who have served us, those who do so today, and those whose dedication in scouring the globe for our soldiers shows that "no man left behind" is far more than an expression.

Love and Death - a Night in the Cemetery

Karen Porter Sorensen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karen Porter Sorensen

"A dreaded sunny day, so I'll meet you at the cemetery gates." -Morrissey A long dark weekend in January. I was listening to Gospel music on the ...

Rockville Diocese Suing Village Of Old Westbury For Halting Plans To Build Cemetery

nydailynews.com | By John Marzulli | Posted 05.25.2011

Catholic Church officials are suing a Long Island town that has blocked plans for a new cemetery for more than a decade. ...

O'Hare Airport Expansion: City Wins Legal Battle Involving St. Johannes Cemetery

chicagotribune.com | Art Barnum | Posted 05.25.2011

A DuPage County judge ruled Friday that Chicago can proceed with acquiring the 6.3-acre St. Johannes Cemetery, which stands in the path of a new O'Har...

Green-Wood Cemetery Statues Crumble With The Economy

Los Angeles Times | Tina Susman | Posted 05.25.2011

It's tough being an angel, even in as idyllic a setting as the Green-Wood Cemetery, where the leaves of shade trees rustle in the summer breeze and th...