This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

18m long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an eighth-century Buddhist master.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.