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Cemeteries

Cimetière Saint-Pierre.

Marseille, France

Cimetière Saint-Pierre

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

Blocher Memorial.

Buffalo, New York

Blocher Memorial

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

The angel's face.

Natchez, Mississippi

'Turning Angel' Statue

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

Badin, North Carolina

Graveyard Island

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

Yanaka Cemetery

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

Cemetery Wine

Bishop's Vineyard makes its products from grapes grown in California graveyards.

Artists Necropolis.

Kassel, Germany

Artists Necropolis (Künstler-Nekropole)

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

The Pest House Cemetery.

Provincetown, Massachusetts

The Pest House Cemetery

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

Tomas Guido tomb Recoleta

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Original Tomb of Tomás Guido

The humble tomb of an Argentine general, hand-built by his son using stones brought down from the Andes.

Lothagam North Pillar Site, near Lake Turkana. The large gray circle in the foreground is the burial area.

Lessons From a 5,000-Year-Old Kenyan Cemetery

Logatham North Pillar Site is upending old assumptions about why people make monuments.

Cara Giaimo August 21, 2018

Harry Potter's Grave.

Harry Potter's Grave

This 1939 grave of a British soldier now receives legions of unlikely visitors.

Levashovo Memorial Cemetery.

Levashovo, Russia

Levashovo Memorial Cemetery

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

The chapel's exquisite interior.

Compton, England

Watts Cemetery Chapel

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

The memorial.

New York, New York

Amiable Child Monument

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery.

Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

East side of "The Abbey" mausoleum at Westview Cemetery.

Atlanta, Georgia

Westview Cemetery

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Tree-shaped tombstones in Miami City Cemetery.

Why Some Gravestones Are Shaped Like Tree Stumps

When nature and secret societies get together.

Sarah Laskow July 17, 2018

Scars of shellfire.

La Ferté-sur-Chiers, France

Ouvrage La Ferté

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.