Cemeteries

A unique Baroque monument that creates a fascinating “theater of memory” focused on the themes of human transience and the hope for resurrection.

All your favorite presidents of Zambia, in one convenient spot.

This cemetery holds the bodies of at least 133 former patients.

Europe’s first football club cemetery, where lifelong supporters remain close to their team even after death.

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

Frances Slocum was taken by Delaware Indians in 1778 and lived as, Maconaquah, a Miami Indian until her death in 1847.

Many of the tombs contain victims of yellow fever epidemics.

This monumental neo-Renaissance tomb in Vyšehrad Cemetery is the final resting place for Czech cultural legends.

The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.

Among the large beech trees of Lanarkshire, Scotland, lies this abandoned cemetery.

Cemetery honors Americans who died during WWII and is the resting place of Gen. George S. Patton.

Once one of Riga’s historically important cemeteries, this location is now a quiet park.

A Victorian-era cemetery serves as a window into the city of Bradford’s past.

Named from the Spanish for “beautiful woods,” this public cemetery is spread across 29 acres of moss-draped oaks.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.

Fans are known to leave tributes to these two brothers, both heavy-metal legends.