Burial Places

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

There once was a man named Lear / Who found limericks so dear / His final resting space / Is an unusual place / Most people don’t know he’s here.

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

The ancient necropolis houses the immense rock-cut tombs of four Persian kings.

Famous and forgotten figures lie beneath the faded headstones and decaying planks of wood.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

Legend has it a commoner volunteered to be buried alive in the foundation so that the great fortress could be built.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.