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Catacombs and Crypts

Hương Thủy, Vietnam

The Tomb of Nguyen Emperor Khai Dinh

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Seodaemun Prison's main hall.

Seoul, South Korea

Seodaemun Prison

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

Someone (or something) has killed the grass around it for...reasons.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Victim of the Beast Gravestone

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

St. Raymond's Cemetery

Bronx, New York

St. Raymond’s Cemetery

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Many ornate statues and obelisks are used as markers here.

Sacramento, California

Sacramento Old City Cemetery

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Leslie Nielsen's Gravesite

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

Seattle, Washington

Lake View Cemetery

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Foucault’s Pendulum

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Hannah Nelson, housekeeper for Lizzie Borden

East Providence, Rhode Island

Little Neck Cemetery

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

Ani and USSR frontier (picture made in 1991)

Ocaklı Köyü, Turkey

Ani Ghost City

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

London, England

Crossbones Graveyard

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Walbrzych, Poland

Totenburg Mausoleum

This mysterious and once-grand memorial still embodies a remarkable architectural vision.

La Hougue Bie

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.

Jewish Cemetery in Worms

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Cairo's City of the Dead

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

Nokhur, Turkmenistan

Nokhur Cemetery

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

Boston, Massachusetts

Forest Hills Cemetery

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

The cemetery's entrance sign pays homage to the creatures buried there.

Cherokee, Alabama

Key Underwood Coon Dog Cemetery

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.