A tunnel to the other side

On the north side of Old San Juan lies the Santa MarĂ­a Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery, also called the Old San Juan cemetery. Built in 1863, this place houses many permanent residents who were famous and prominent Puerto Ricans in their day. In March 2020 I took a morning stroll through this space while in…

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A hill of peaceful resistance

In a sparsely populated corner of Lithuania sits a hill that is adorned with an estimated over 150,000 crosses, as well as statues, rosaries, cards to loved ones, carvings, and more. (While this site isn’t a graveyard, I’ll give it a pass since it’s so epic… and hey, I run this site; I can do…

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