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The rock obelisk at Rugby, North Dakota.

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The Geographical Center of North America

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

SS Richard Montgomery's eerie masts at low tide

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Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

The bigger Triptych

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Triptyques de Ternant

A small village church is home to two extraordinary triptych altarpieces that date back to the 15th century.

Moses with tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Mount Horeb

Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.

Monument to Enemas.

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Monument to Enemas

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

Gurun Electric Converter Temple.

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Gurun Electric Converter Temple

Temple-like building holds power equipment.

Giorgi's Furnace. (Sandra Ancelot/Atlas Obscura)

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Giorgi's Furnace

Production site for handmade clay bricks.

The tombstone of Beauford Delaney at the Parisian Cemetery of Thiais in Thiais, France.

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Grave of Beauford Delaney

The formerly unmarked grave of the noted Black American painter, who was a friend to James Baldwin.

Ancient round barrow in an unlikely spot.

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Fourwentways Bronze Age Cemetery

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

A view of the ship mill.

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Revere's Ship Mill (Mulino natante di Revere)

The last working ship mill in Italy, once widespread on major rivers in whole Europe

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Podcast: A Journey Through Death With Joanna Ebenstein

What does our fascination with mortality reveal about who we are?

Haunted Stays and Autumn Days in Colorado

There’s so much to love about fall in Colorado, some people never leave.

Hand of Glory: The Macabre Magic of Severed Hands

Morbid Monday: Resurrection through Decomposition

Stolen Brains and Last Breaths: 6 Relics of Science

Morbid Monday: A Nightmare at Murder Farm

Morbid Monday: The Game of Thrones Written in Bones, Conquistador Edition

Boston's Ancient Necropolis Worker with a Broom Handle Neck

Morbid Monday: Hazardous Dr. Hazzard, Whose Cure Was Starvation

New York's Most Metal Cemetery

Morbid Monday: The Man Who Dissolved His Wife

September 1, 2014

Morbid Monday: Skeleton On Your Back

September 8, 2014

Morbid Monday: Maps of the End of the World

Maps of the End of the World

October 6, 2014

Morbid Monday: Corpse Theatre, When the Roles of the Dead Were Played by Real Cadavers

October 13, 2014

Morbid Monday: The Macabre Romance of a Man and a Mummy

Using plaster of Paris, wires, mortician’s wax, and glass eyes, Tanzler brought Elena “back to life,” and proceeded to take her to his home where the pair shared a marital bed.

October 27, 2014

In an Oklahoma Museum: All the Gory Details and Beetles of Skeleton Preparation

October 29, 2014

A Mummy Hoax Might Be Wrapped up in a Modern Murder

November 17, 2014

The Morbid Journey of Cromwell's Traveling Head

November 24, 2014