Places LeahRumsey Wants to Go

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

The carved medieval stones stand near the ruined abbey's parking lot.

An 11th-century Viking gravestone in a Victorian parish church graveyard.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

People leave coins atop an unusual grave marker in one of Scotland's oldest burial grounds.

A striking glass tribute to two sisters who suffered during Scotland's "Killing Time."

These ruins saw a second life as a cemetery.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

An unpaid bill, a stolen stone, and a famous fashion designer rest peacefully alongside a heroine of Highlands history.

A unique Baroque monument that creates a fascinating “theater of memory” focused on the themes of human transience and the hope for resurrection.

The unusual burial site of a globetrotter, eccentric, adventurer, war hero, landscape designer, dandy, and writer.

A rocky outcrop where monks hid their most holy relic while escaping Danish invaders.

The remains of "the Pearl of Scotland" can be found inside this church.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A dark Victorian well house now plays host to mystical waters and pagan shrines.

A shrine to one of England's female saints in what is believed to be her former home.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

Inside this cathedral is a shoulder bone belonging to the Patron Saint of Scotland.

A unique sculpture park that features the works of several famed artists.