Burial Places

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

A beautiful discovery site of prehistoric burials.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.