What else can you do with a coffin besides use it as a final storage unit for your earthly remains? Why, you can race it, of course. If this sounds like a preposterous idea (which, it is, really), consider that the town of Manitou Springs, Colorado, has been hosting an annual coffin race for the past 20 years. It started as a way to commemorate a local figure, a young woman named Emma Crawford, who perished of tuberculosis (Manitou Springs was a spa town, popular with tuberculosis patients). Emma was buried atop Red Mountain until 1912, when due to railroad...