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This tranquil churchyard in the heart of England’s mining country whispers tales of both triumph and tragedy.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

An unknown number of cholera victims are buried in two nondescript graves.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.