#Grave

Source: Atlas Obscura Although dogs are beloved animals all over the world and across all social standings, it’s rather unusual is to bury your four-legged friend in a marked grave next to your royal palace. Yet this is exactly what happened with Pompe, the Swedish king’s favorite dog. King

Author: Lindsay Patterson / Source: Atlas Obscura Rosemary Malfi first encountered conopids while she was dissecting bees, early in her graduate career. She was looking for the type of parasite you can only see with a microscope. But it was difficult to look past the parasites that filled the

Source: Atlas Obscura There’s a curious gravesite in Malew Churchyard on the Isle of Man. The burial plot is cornered by four iron stakes, draped with heavy chains. A huge slate slab covers the grave. It remains a mystery as to exactly why these chains were placed here back in the 1850s, but they

Source: Atlas Obscura In a scrapyard on the banks of the Calumet River in Chicago sits a tiny cemetery, population: one. This is the grave of Andreas von Zirngibl, a one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo. Top Places in Chicago See more things to do in Chicago » Von Zirngibl was born in

Author: Karl Smallwood / Source: Today I Found Out Nick C. asks: How did they settle on six feet deep for graves? If there’s one thing everyone knows about graves other than the fact that they’re really spooky at night, it’s that they’re always six feet deep. In truth, despite “six feet under”