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Tombstone House

Petersburg, VA

Oswald Young built this house in 1934 using pieces of thousands of discarded government headstones that had once marked Union graves at nearby Poplar Grove National Cemetery. The strange stone residence still survives on Youngs Road, but it is private property and should be viewed only from the public roadway.

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

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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