London, England
The Hardy Tree
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
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London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.
London, England
Some of the earliest leaders of the Moravian congregation are buried here.
London, England
A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.
London, England
A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.
London, England
A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.
London, England
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
London, England
A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
Chicago, Illinois
A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.
Chicago, Illinois
The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.
Chicago, Illinois
Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
Schnals, Italy
Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Ravenna, Italy
Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
East Sussex, England
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.
Baia, Italy
A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Vagli Sopra, Italy
This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.