Graveyards

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

The bulletproof cross stands at the only operational Christian cemetery in Pakistan's most populated city.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.