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Reserve your place in the Great Pyramid of death!

The Great Pyramid of DessauWell, this is just plain weird, but it appears to be genuine. The German town of Dessau, birthplace of the Bauhaus art movement, is home to a group of entrepreneurs who intend on using concrete blocks containing the ashes of dead people to build an immense pyramid. Reserve your block now! Whether or not the business model is even vaguely plausible, you’ve got to give them kudos for sheer ambition. What kind of bizarre legacy for future civilizations would that be? [BLDGBLOG]