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Manhattan was almost home to a 200-foot-tall owl mausoleum (atlasobscura.com)
1 point by blondeoracle on July 2, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



A newspaper tycoon commissioned a sarcophagus in the form of a huge owl. He wanted his coffin to be suspended inside the owl’s body by iron chains.




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