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Westview Cemetery, Atlanta

I have always been a little obsessed with the legacy of eccentric millionaire and Coca-Cola heir Asa Candler Jr. (1880-1953). The original reason I procured a LiDAR scanner was to scan the eccentric architectural follies that he built in Atlanta to accompany a friend’s book on Candler. We scanned Candler’s massive Westview Cemetery Abbey, Atlanta’s weirdest and greatest building. Begun in 1940 and still partially unfinished, it contains 11,444 crypts, intricate stained glass, soaring vaulted ceilings, a pipe organ, Cold War-era drinking water supplies in the event of nuclear war, and even a secret movie theater.