Spookiest US Cemeteries: What's Your Favorite?
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Meg Pier | Posted 05.05.2012
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.
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...
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,...
Alan Elsner | Posted 01.09.2012
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.
Donna Henes | Posted 12.28.2011
Halloween descends from Samhain, the most significant holiday of the Celtic calendar.
BootsnAll | Posted 12.18.2011
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.
Patrick McGinnis | Posted 10.14.2011
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.
Randi Miller | Posted 11.20.2011
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.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.20.2011
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.
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...
Tanja M. Laden | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
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.
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Marcia Meier | Posted 05.25.2011
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....
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Karen Porter Sorensen | Posted 05.25.2011
"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 ...
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. ...
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...
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...
Posted 05.21.2012