DEATH

Falling leaves, stunning statuary, and famous graves—here are a dozen picturesque international spots to rest in peace.

We need burial space equivalent to the size of Philadelphia to accommodate our dead. We don't have it. What now?

We’ve been preserving human bodies since the Stone Age.

These five cemetery journeys are a great way to explore America’s rich and varied history. Tombstone tourists, rejoice.

Some people made jokes; one person established the Nobel Prize.

Delve into the mystery surrounding the assassination of Grigori Rasputin, and see how the circumstances of his death have taken on a life of their own.

It all began in 1952 when then-Princess Elizabeth was caught without a black outfit when the circumstances called for one.

The cause of death in these mysterious cases has, at one time or another, been reported as spontaneous human combustion—but there was often a more realistic explanation.

February 14 is often celebrates as a day of love—but it has also been marked as a day of tragedy.

Spoiler alert: They’re still around.

On January 30, 1925, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins went underground—and didn’t come out. The epic effort to rescue him gripped national headlines and transformed into a battle between heroism and folly, selflessness and selfishness, life and death.

Catch the blooming of Sydney‘s corpse flower without being exposed to its infamous odor.