Big StoriesBest of 2015Don't Let 2015 End Without Reading These StoriesIn 2015, BuzzFeed News reporters and contributors went everywhere from Nova Scotia to Kazakhstan to China. Here is a selection of their stories, on the injustices, mysteries, phenomena, and fascinations we couldn't miss this year.By by Anita BadejoBuzzFeed News Associate Features EditorPosted on December 21, 2015, 10:06 pmTwitterFacebookLink Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF "This Is What They Did For Fun": A Modern-Day Lynching In Mississippi — Albert Samaha A Week In the Mysterious Sleeping Villages Of Kazakhstan — Sarah A. Topol Who Set Jessica Chambers On Fire? The Internet Is Trying To Find Out — Katie J.M. Baker A Murder At La Casa Green — Tim Stelloh & Freda Moon The Untold Story Of The Most Notorious House In Comedy History — David Peisner The New American Slavery — Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, Jeremy Singer-Vine Love In The Time Of Deportation — David Noriega The Strange Saga And Dark Secrets Of Matt DeHart — David Kushner The Last Days Of Graceland Too, The World's Most Notorious Elvis Shrine — Elise Jordan The Trials Of Teresa Sheehan — Sandra Allen Born In Between: When A Newborn's Sex Is In Question, Why Do Doctors Get to Decide? — Azeen Ghorayshi On The Road With The Teen Social-Media Sensations Of DigiTour — Ellen Cushing Ghost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools — Azmat Khan The Abandoned Plan That Could Have Saved America From Drought — Michelle Nijhuis How To Make Millions of Hoverboards (Almost) Overnight — Joseph Bernstein These Are The Families Left To Reclaim Garissa's Dead — Jina Moore An Afternoon With The Women Of New Orleans' Trans Veterans Support Group — Mac McClelland She Skipped School And Couldn’t Pay Her Fines — So Texas Sent Her To Jail — Kendall Taggart & Alex Campbell Why Taylor Woolrich Wanted A Gun — Madison Pauly "That's What Happened Between Me And Clark" — Anne Helen Petersen Mental Illness Cost Eddie Davison His Freedom —Will It Also Cost Him $2 Million? — Cat Ferguson Hash Oil Is Weed’s Next Big Thing And No One Knows If It’s Safe — Amanda Chicago Lewis Gone Girl: An Interview With An American In ISIS — Ellie Hall The Real Story Behind Canada’s Murder For Lobster — Peter Andrey Smith If They Build It, Will We Come? Meet The Tech Entrepreneurs Trying To Take Back The Porn Industry — Charlie Warzel Did The FBI Transform This Teenager Into A Terrorist After Reading His Emails? — Nicolás Medina Mora & Mike Hayes Behind The Scenes At The Championship Of Gloving, America's Mindbending New $13 Million Sport — Marisa Carroll His Husband Died In 2013, But Jim Obergefell Is Still Fighting For Their Marriage — Chris Geidner The Invention That Could End Obesity — Joel Oliphint The Fight to Resurrect America’s Most Important Black Beach — John Stanton Want to read more stories like this? Sign up for our Sunday features newsletter, and we'll send you a curated list of great things to read every week!