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The rock obelisk at Rugby, North Dakota.

Rugby, North Dakota

The Geographical Center of North America

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

Cublington Spinney memorial

Cublington, England

Cublington Spinney and Airport Monument

In the 1970s, the citizens of several small villages came together to stop their homes from being destroyed for a new airport.

Statue of El Santo located a few meters from the museum.

Tulancingo de Bravo, Mexico

Museum of El Santo

An old railway building commemorates one of Mexico's most celebrated lucha libre stars.

Flygbussarna. (Creative Review)

Arlandastad, Sweden

Flygbussarna

Sculpture of a bus made from wrecked passenger cars.

Image showing mechanism from mid 1800s

Grenoble, France

Canard Digérateur de Vaucanson (Vaucanson's Digesting Duck)

Vaucanson's most famous automaton, brought back to life.

Chocolate 'OJERT' Mural Advert

A hand-painted advertisement for chocolate adorns the walls of this historic building.

The cockfight at Plaza Patria.

Aguascalientes, Mexico

Automaton Clocks of Aguascalientes

Public clocks around the city chime with bullfights, cockfights, old railways, and other local traditions.

An aerial view of Lake Karachay.

Lake Karachay

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

Irbeysky District, Russia

House of Evgeny Smolik

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

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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