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Beth Olem Cemetery

Detroit, MI

Beth Olem is a nineteenth-century Jewish cemetery completely enclosed by an active automotive manufacturing complex after later industrial development grew around it. Public access is extremely limited to specific scheduled days, making this one of Detroit's strangest surviving pieces of urban history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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