The ordinary cemetery is taken to new heights by the obsessive Danes. Small, narrow hedges separate individual plots. Gravestones can…
VIA APPIA. The first 90km section of this road was laid in 312 BC and then extended in 100 BC…
The Cambodian Killing Fields are several sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried…
History. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their…
2000-year-old tombs underneath St Peters Basilica. St. Peter was (said to be crucified) in Rome in 64 C.E., at the…
La Recoleta Cemetery is located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder…
The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel…
The Mummies of Guanajuato are several naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. The…
The Capuchins were an austere group of monks established in 1529. To ensure a proper resurrection, they saved everything including…
The world's most visited graveyard, it opened in 1804 and out of 800.000 people buried here, there are 69,000 ornate,…