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Point Mountain Mausoleum is an abandoned mausoleum at the top of Point Mountain in Hancock, New York, overlooking the Delaware River and neighboring Pennsylvania. It was built as the memorial and final resting spot of Dr. Lester E. Woolsey (1872–1962) in the 1940s.
Assad Mausoleum (Arabic: ضريح الأسد), commonly known as Hafez al-Assad Mausoleum (Arabic: ضريح حافظ الأسد), officially known as "Immortal Leader's Mausoleum" (Arabic: ضريح الزعيم الخالد) during the Ba'athist regime, [1] was the mausoleum of the Assad family, which ruled Syria from 1971 until 2024.
The Vanderbilt mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and constructed in 1885–1886, [3] is part of the family's private cemetery adjacent to Moravian cemetery. Hunt's design was inspired by the 12th-century Romanesque Saint-Gilles-du-Gard Abbey near Arles, France. The landscaped grounds around the mausoleum were designed by Frederick Law ...
A photographer's fascination with old abandoned houses has provided rare glimpses inside derelict properties in the north Highlands. Angus Mackay started taking pictures of the buildings during ...
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, another Wonder of the Ancient World, was destroyed by a series of earthquakes between the 12th and 15th centuries. Most of the remaining marble blocks were burnt into lime, but some were used in the construction of Bodrum Castle by the Knights Hospitaller , where they can still be seen today.
Floor plan of Abbey Mausoleum. Abbey Mausoleum was built in 1924 by the U.S. Mausoleum Company. [1] [2] The land was owned by the Syphax family.[1] [3] Maria Custis Syphax, the matriarch of the family, was the mulatto daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington and founder of the Arlington Estate on the banks of the Potomac River (later the home of Robert E. Lee). [4]
This list of cemeteries in California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries
The abandoned amusement park became eerily overgrown, with a rusting, twisted Ferris wheel, decaying roller coaster, and fallen Tyrannosaurus Rex. Last year, however, work began on turning the ...