When urban sprawl meets sacred ground, unusual things happen. Here are seven instances of preserved cemeteries surrounded by parking lots! Imagine seeing the final resting place of your area's early settlers in front of your local Home Depot. Shown is the grave of Mary Ellis, who died in 1826.

Mary, who came to New Brunswick in the 1790s to live with her sister, fell in love with a sea captain who promised to marry her once he returned from his next voyage. The captain then left Mary his horse and sailed off down the Raritan River.

Every day, Mary rode her lover's steed down to the river, hoping to meet him at the water's edge. For years, she gazed at the river, waiting for his return. In 1813, she purchased a plot of land overlooking the river, where she maintained her vigil until her death in 1826. And there she was buried, forever waiting for her captain.

The grave is now surrounded by a movie theater parking lot in New Jersey. Read more at Wesley Treat's Roadside Blog. Link -Thanks, Bethany Nelson!

Run is a simple game that will drive you mad. The object is to not fall into the abyss of space while you run at a steady pace. That pace gets faster as you go, and I succumbed on the fifth level. Better start out with the tutorial. Link -Thanks, David!

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EatStreet developed a font literally made of food. Design students met at a a few restaurants, played with their food, and photographed the characters they made. You can download the finished product free! http://www.chank.com/freefont_detail.php?sku=1111 -Thanks, michael!

This is the way all disputes should be worked out. Link -via reddit

Well, this is gruesome. Link -via Everlasting Blort

The annual Toronto Zombie Walk attracted 3,000 of the undead over the weekend. This zombie apparently couldn't find any brains and had to settle for a pizza! See lots more gruesomely awesome pictures at BlogTO. Link -Thanks, Roger Cullman!

Cliff divers deal with insane heights, variable water levels, and falls that are not exactly straight down. Take a look at locations where the most adventurous cliff divers risk life and limb for an extreme thrill. Pictured is the popular diving cliff in Wolfgangsee, Austria. Pro Traveller has six more, with videos. Link -Thanks, Andy!

There are places on earth where tectonic plates are moving, sometimes too slow for humans to discern, sometimes rather suddenly. deputy dog found five places where the earth has cracked open, with photographic evidence. Shown is a volcanic vent that appeared suddenly in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 2006. http://deputy-dog.com/2008/10/5-enormous-cracks.html

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Chris Hausbeck unveiled this 50 foot tall, 10 ton sculpture on the grounds of Wild Bill's Nostalgia in Middletown Connecticut last week.

The Head was purchased 5 years ago from an antique shop near Gillette Castle in Connecticut after languishing in the elements for dozens of years.
We were told it was created for Bob Keeshen the original 'Clarabell The Clown' on the television show Howdy Doody in the late 1950's. Mr. Keeshan later went on to become Captain Kangaroo after this fiberglas mascott was created. The Head has recieved a major restoration due to the significant damages done by mishandling and weather. We used 300 sq feet of fiberglas cloth and 4.5 gallons of epoxy resin to repair the structure to withstand harsh New England storms with aplomb. The giant clown head will be painted to bear likeness to the original Clarabell in tribute to the late Mr. Keeshen.

This mechanism has been built inside a 40 foot tall grain silo made of stone and brick constructed in the mid 1800's and is supposedly one of four left in existance.

With the mechanism completed and connecting rod attached the clown head appears as if from nowhere from the top of the silo and peer down to the traffic and with a smooth running mechanism churning away below.

Details of the construction are recorded in a Flickr set. Link -Thanks, Chris Hausbeck!

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has instructions for making simple ghost decorations with cool LED eyes!

You can make these simple LED ghosties (based on LED throwies) from a soda bottle, a couple of LEDs and batteries, string, and a scrap of fabric. Hang them in your trees, your haunted house, or in your porch for Halloween. They look especially excellent because the eyes seem to float in mid-air behind the fabric.

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Why have a bare wall when you can have a Living Dead Zombie Attack Wall Art Vinyl Decal? Link -Thanks, John "Widgett" Robinson!

Arthur Conan Doyle first created the character of Sherlock Holmes in 1887. Today the detective is the subject of the mental_floss Lunchtime Quiz. Can you match eight Sherlock Holmes story titles to their plot lines? I couldn't. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19459

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Their name is easy to remember: Tokyo-based d.v.d is a trio with two drum players, Itoken and Jimanica and visualiser Takashi Yamaguchi (ymg) on the hardware front. So while the two are furiously beating two drum kits in front of a huge screen, their sounds trigger geometrical shapes with processing, Pong-style game settings or bizarre drop landscapes that interact, transform or collapse.

See more videos and an interview with the group at PingMag. Link -via picdit -Thanks, Adam Fuhrer!

Here are some stories you can share for Halloween, or maybe even travel destinations! Web Urbanist has a slide show featuring abandoned places all over the world. Shown here is Balestrino, Italy, a medieval town abandoned because of seismic instability. The next earthquake may destroy it completely! Link -via Digg

In a post about the ten longest limousines in the world, we find this:

The last limousine is actually the longest super stretch limousine in the world. Total length is 100 feet (more than 30 meters). It has 26 tires, room for a lot of passengers, a heated Jacuzzi, sun deck, swimming pool, a few beds and… a helipad!

http://www.limohead.co.uk/top-10-longest-super-stretch-limousines-in-the-world-ever/ -Thanks, Peter Jensen!