Tombs

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

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

A beautiful chapel on the hills of the Oltrepò Pavese claims to house the tomb of King Edward II of England.

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.

Enigmatic tombs and cave dwellings on the outskirts of a rural village.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

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

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

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