How Corpses Helped Shape the London Underground

How Corpses Helped Shape the London Underground

As Mexico City archaeologists sort through the surreal array of Aztec sacrificial skulls recently uncovered while excavating their city’s subway system, it’s worth remembering that parts of the London Underground were also tunneled, blasted, picked, and drilled through a labyrinth of plague pits and cemeteries.

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Six Feet Over: The Future of Skyscraper Cemeteries

Six Feet Over: The Future of Skyscraper Cemeteries

This month in Oslo, an architecture student named Martin McSherry presented a controversial idea to a gathering of cemetery and funeral professionals. The topic? His design for a "vertical cemetery" that could, in theory, solve Norway’s growing graveyard conundrum.

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The Island of Mass Graves, A Short Boat Ride From Manhattan

The Island of Mass Graves, A Short Boat Ride From Manhattan

The New York Times has published a long piece about Hart Island, a few weeks after Gizmodo’s own coverage of the shocking and emotionally super-charged site, where prisoners from Riker’s Island bury New York City’s unclaimed dead.

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Sadly, You Will Not Be Able to Visit Neil Armstrong’s Grave [Neil Armstrong]

Neil Armstrong, America’s greatest and most reluctant hero, is not going to have a grave. He’s going to be buried at sea. More »