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Funerals in the Vatican: Discovering the Final Rites of the Popes

Allison Meier April 9, 2014
morbid monday

Morbid Monday: Living with the Dead

Dolly Stolze March 31, 2014
Eurasian griffon (vulture) contributing to the ritual
cemeteries

Give My Body to the Birds: The Practice of Sky Burial

Meg van Huygen March 11, 2014
cemeteries

Washington Irving Bishop: The Magician Killed by an Autopsy

Allison Meier March 10, 2014
mummies

Soap on a Bone: How Corpse Wax Forms

Dolly Stolze February 17, 2014
tombs

Bury My Heart Apart from Me: The History of Heart Burial

Allison Meier February 14, 2014
relics

Sarira: Buddhist Human Pearls

Kevin Lo February 11, 2014
Undertaker's Ledgers at Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York

Undertaker's Ledgers

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.
The Triumph of Death
Clusone, Italy

The Triumph of Death

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.
The Tower of Silence in Yazd
Yazd, Iran

Zoroastrian Towers of Silence

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.
The museum entryway.
essential guide

The Essential Guide To Secret Museums

Prepare to marvel at these hidden museums considered unfit for public viewing.  
Darmon Richter September 27, 2013
Death cutting the life-thread
Munich, Germany

Asamkirche

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Jade Burial Suit of Princess Dou Wan.
Shijiazhuang, China

Jade Burial Suits

Stone shrouds of Prince Liu Sheng and Princess Dou Wan of the Han Dynasty, created to preserve their flesh for eternity.
To Jane, My Wife.
Brooklyn, New York

The Tomb of Jane Griffith

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.
The Cenotaph of Pope Sylvester II
Rome, Italy

The Sweating Cenotaph at the Archbasilica San Giovanni in Laterano

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.
Longwood, Saint Helena

Longwood House

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
Paris, France

Statue of Death of the University of Medicine

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
New Yorker Hotel
New York, New York

New Yorker Hotel

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.