Cemeteries

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.

This historic cemetery is home to the largest private mausoleum in Europe.

Freemasonry’s universal creed etched in limestone.

A quiet cemetery in northeastern North Carolina holds tiny structures believed to protect spirits.

A burial ground restored by a determined Boy Scout, where fragments of America’s early history rest beneath weathered stones.

A cobalt-lit cemetery statue that has inspired decades of local legends.

Wildflower-filled 19th-century cemetery is a bucolic final resting place.

The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.

A former graveyard for Riga’s elite is now a large park with elegant monuments.

This ornate neo-Gothic mausoleum honors the man behind the Mercedes name—and the daughter who inspired it.

Overlooked archeological site close to the city of Patras.