Tombs

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

This pyramid in southern Sweden houses the remains of an eccentric nobleman, who spent his life doing whatever he felt like doing.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.