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Boston's Old Burying Grounds

Boston, MA

Boston's oldest downtown graveyards are filled with winged skulls, hourglasses, skeletons and other stark Puritan mortality symbols. A walk through the historic burying grounds becomes an outdoor gallery of macabre colonial stone carving.

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

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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