Malmesbury, England
Hannah Twynnoy's Gravestone
This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.
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Malmesbury, England
This crumbling headstone commemorates the first death by tiger in Britain's history.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Marlborough, England
It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.
Lyndhurst, England
The grave of Mrs. Reginald Hargreaves, who inspired the tale 'Alice in Wonderland.'
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Maidstone, England
This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.
West Malling, England
A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.
Cambridge, England
The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.
Hardingstone, England
In the 1930s, a mysterious murder shook this Northamptonshire village–the identity of the victim remains a mystery to this day.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Hull, England
This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.
Nottingham, England
A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.
Hucknall, England
Lord Byron's embalmed body lies within this medieval church.
Odense, Denmark
The last Viking king of Denmark is buried inside the crypt of this cathedral.
Jelling, Denmark
Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.
Oslo, Norway
The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.
Amboise, France
The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.
Ypres, Belgium
In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.
Ypres, Belgium
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Brussels, Belgium
Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Prague, Czechia
A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Prague, Czechia
Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.
Prague, Czechia
An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.