DEATH

The famed writer died 75 years ago today, but at the time of his death, the Catholic church that housed his family's burial plots wouldn't allow Fitzgerald to be buried there.

And they could help determine time of death. Paging CSI.

Here are seven of the most picturesque and historically fascinating catacombs open for visits around the world.

No one knows who the man in the suit on the beach was—or how he died.

In 1966, a young man came across a pair of dead bodies lying side-by-side. But what they were wearing took the discovery from tragic to truly bizarre.

The Mütter Museum recently discovered it owns the nation's largest collection of books bound in human leather—and now a research team is trying to track down the rest of the world’s examples.

In February 1959, a group of students went on a camping expedition in the Ural mountains. They never returned.

In November, it will be moved from museum storage to the castle where she died in 1938.

F.W. Murnau isn't the only historical figure to have lost his head after death.

Remember how scared we were of satanic cults, Y2K, and nuclear war? (Okay, we're still scared of nuclear war.)

The gruesome way the author of Frankenstein coped with her husband's death.

Though he was in office less than a year, Garfield's grave is one of the most elaborate presidential monuments ever built.