Death

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.