Graveyards

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

World War II Soviet Russian soldiers were buried on the Danish island after the war had ended.

Thousands of members of one family rest in peace at Okinawa's largest community gravesite.

This historic psychiatric hospital is haunted by its chilling past.

Both Catholic and Protestant graves dot this 17th-century burial ground.

Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.

It may not be the final resting place of a literal giant, but the Giant’s Grave is still archaeologically important.

The first graveyard named "Boot Hill" was established in Hays, Kansas, years before better known cemeteries with the same name.

A scattered cemetery of medieval tombstones, each carved with indivdual patterns and scenes, overlooking a bright blue lake.

Carved wooden graves mark the plots at this cemetery in an old mining town.

This place bears witness to the loss of many lives during WWII, and stands in stark contrast to the American Cemetery.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

The caskets in this graveyard have not been opened—they have always been open.

The grave of William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin Donuts (now Dunkin') with shops coast to coast in the US and 42 countries worldwide.

A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.

The burial place of one the greatest Arthurian authors, with the sword in the (grave)stone.