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The Knaackstraße gate to the Judengang.
Berlin, Germany

Judengang

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.
The peak of cheesy, starchy comfort food.
food

A Guide to the World’s Most Comforting Foods of Grief

In an age of distance, we can still connect in the kitchen to mourn, memorialize, and heal.
Sam O'Brien April 20, 2020
Around Halloween, visitors to the Merchant's House Museum can pick up a funeral biscuit to take home.
victorian

Eat Your Sorrow With These Victorian Funeral Biscuits

Ingredients often included molasses, caraway seeds, ginger, and grief.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 30, 2019
One of Zufferey's engraved wheels of cheese.
mountains

The Valley of the Cheese of the Dead

In this remote Swiss town, residents spent a lifetime aging a wheel for their own funeral.
Molly McDonough October 24, 2019
Slack Head, England

Fairy Steps

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.
Permanent collections.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Museum Tot Zover

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.
Hindu burning ghats along the banks of the sacred Ganges River in Varanasi.
Varanasi, India

Cremation Ghats of Varanasi

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.
The 19th-century mummified remains of an unknown woman.
Encarnación de Díaz, Mexico

Mummies of Museo de las Animas

An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.
Cenotaphs in Orchha at sunrise.
Orchha, India

Cenotaphs of Orchha

These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.
Coffin bench.
Whitby, England

199 Steps Coffin Benches

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.
Permanently Closed
Zurich, Switzerland

Der Trauerautomat

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.
Where the Pacific Ocean meets the Tasman Sea.
Cape Reinga, New Zealand

Cape Reinga

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.
The funeral train when it was displayed in York.
Shildon, England

Winston Churchill's Funeral Train

The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.
In 1943, the Brown Derby restaurant on Vine Street, in Hollywood, was a place to dine and dish gossip.
architecture

Mourners Once Held a Sidewalk Funeral for a Restaurant Named for a Hat

On Valentine’s Day 1994, protestors in Hollywood turned out to eulogize the Brown Derby.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 11, 2019
Union Pacific's No. 4141 George Bush Locomotive.
trains

George H.W. Bush’s Funeral Train Revives a Lost Tradition

For presidents past, special rail cars provided a final journey home.
Justin Franz December 5, 2018
Kyiv Crematorium.
Kyiv, Ukraine

Kyiv Crematorium

This oddly shaped building is a surprising Soviet-era crematorium.
Permanently Closed
Tokyo, Japan

Yurei Izakaya

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.
Necròpolis Son Real
Santa Margalida, Spain

Necropolis of Son Real

The largest prehistoric cemetery on the Balearic Islands dates back over 2,500 years.