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Catacombs

Nokhur, Turkmenistan

Nokhur Cemetery

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

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.

Zawya Sultan Basha, Egypt

City of the Dead

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Lush green hills in the background of a phallic headstone

Khalid Nabi Cemetery

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

Several headstone in the Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston. Many of these headstone are from the 18th and 19th century.

Boston, Massachusetts

Copp's Hill Burying Ground

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

First Shearith Israel Graveyard

New York, New York

First Shearith Israel Graveyard

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

Copp's Hill Burying Ground

Boston, Massachusetts

Tomb of the Mather Family

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

New Haven, Connecticut

Crypt at Center Church-on-the-Green

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Entrance to Bohemian National Cemetery. (Wikimedia Commons)

Chicago, Illinois

Bohemian National Cemetery

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

City's sign lists local sights but not the infamous camp. (spinkk/Atlas Obscura)

Dachau, Germany

Dachau Concentration Camp

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Kazanlak, Bulgaria

Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

Odessa's Mindbending Catacomb Maps

They are a very bad place to get lost.

Dylan Thuras September 17, 2010

Looking Up The Steps

Spokane, Washington

Greenwood Cemetery

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

Reveille Cemetery; C. Matthew Pyryt/Photographer

College Station, Texas

Reveille Mascot Cemetery

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Tomigusuku, Japan

Naval Underground Headquarters

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

The centerpiece of the Hartford Circus Fire Memorial, where the middle tent post stood.

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford Circus Fire Memorial

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

Soldiers marching through the Menin Gate (before the modern structure) at the start of WWI

Menin Gate Memorial

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

Typical Boston gravestones showing the winged death head

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's Old Burying Grounds

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.