Abandoned Cemeteries

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

Among the large beech trees of Lanarkshire, Scotland, lies this abandoned cemetery.

A burial ground restored by a determined Boy Scout, where fragments of America’s early history rest beneath weathered stones.

A 21-foot-tall pyramid in a Northern Irish woodland marks the grave of... nobody.

An unkempt, oddly placed piece of land keeps an elderly farming couple in a residential area.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.