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Monday, March 2, 2009

Paved Paradise: Cemeteries in Parking Lots
Graveyard-Side Postal Drop

While researching the "Cemetery Safari" chapter for his upcoming book Weird Oklahoma, the author came across an unusual burial site west of Tulsa that was entirely enclosed within a strip-mall parking lot. Once sacred ground, it's now a conspicuous patch of grass in a sea of asphalt, a quirky spectacle to the shoppers forced to drive around it on their way to Radio Shack.

The handful of graves had become an absurd sight gag that punctuated the often indiscriminate momentum of American progress. And there are others like it! [MORE]

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