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This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

The jewel of the museum is a rare tumulus, a funeral decoration from the 18th century.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The life-size bronze statue commemorates the ride of 16-year-old American Revolutionary War hero.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

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

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.