Death

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.