Graveyards

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This 1939 grave of a British soldier now receives legions of unlikely visitors.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

Local legend says there's treasure hidden within its crowded graveyard.

The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.

A cemetery full of exquisite statuary, including a monument to a woman some say died of a broken heart.

A historic cemetery doubles as a museum containing hundreds of unique tombs sculpted by a single artist.