Burial Places

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.