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Society Adventures: Seeking Hidden Symbolism in Greenwood Cemetery

Dylan Thuras December 20, 2011
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Society Adventures: Exploring the San Francisco Columbarium

Annetta Black December 6, 2011
Nokhur Cemetery
Nokhur, Turkmenistan

Nokhur Cemetery

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
Boston, Massachusetts

Forest Hills Cemetery

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
The cemetery's entrance sign pays homage to the creatures buried there.
Cherokee, Alabama

Key Underwood Coon Dog Cemetery

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.
Mbour, Senegal

Fadiouth Shell Island

An island made out of shells, including a cemetery.
Zawya Sultan Basha, Egypt

City of the Dead

An endless sea of white conical domes.
Calvary Cemetery
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Society Adventures: Cemetery Explorations at Calvary Cemetery

Allison Meier October 25, 2011
Calvary Cemetery
Queens, New York

Calvary Cemetery

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
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Vampires, Magic Duels, and Headless Bodies

Dylan Thuras October 3, 2011
Lush green hills in the background of a phallic headstone
Iran

Khalid Nabi Cemetery

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.
Brooklyn, New York

Friends Quaker Cemetery

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
Many of the gravestones appear to be sinking into the ground
Boston, Massachusetts

Copp's Hill Burying Ground

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
New York, New York

First Shearith Israel Graveyard

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.
Overgrown headstones at the Unitarian Cemetery.
Charleston, South Carolina

Unitarian Church Cemetery

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
Boston, Massachusetts

Tomb of the Mather Family

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.
Atlanta, Georgia

Mount Olive Cemetery

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.
New Haven, Connecticut

Crypt at Center Church-on-the-Green

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.