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Hollywood Forever Cemetery – Celebrating Hollywood’s Golden Age

Hollywood Forever Cemetery – Celebrating Hollywood’s Golden Age

Some may say that walking around a cemetery is macabre but I have always found a cemetery to be a place of quiet contemplation. Cemeteries oftentimes reflect a city’s outlook on itself and its culture. Attitudes to death vary wildly according to geographical and...

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Eastern State Penitentiary – The Worlds First True Penitentiary

Eastern State Penitentiary – The Worlds First True Penitentiary

Sitting ominously atop a hill in the residential district of Fairmount in Philadelphia, the Neo Gothic walls of Eastern State Penitentiary are as imposing today as they were when the building first opened in 1829 becoming home to 450 prisoners. A pioneer of the...

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