Reputedly based on the tomb of Jesus Christ, this crypt is the oldest surviving structure of any cathedral in England.

The remains of St. Lucius of Chur were said to be kept in this crypt for several centuries.

The secluded resting place of a local historical figure who perished during the sinking of the Titanic.

Does being buried standing up help you get into heaven faster?

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A curious memento mori hangs in the magnificent Cathedral of Segovia.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

People leave coins atop an unusual grave marker in one of Scotland's oldest burial grounds.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

The world's oldest model village.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

Deep in the Ocala National Forest, a lonesome 19th-century grave.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

The ruins of a 17th-century lodge on a grand estate are being slowly restored to their former glory.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

One of Alaska's most significant ancient sites, spanning millennia and cultures, is right under the feet of some famously fat bears.

This ancient monument has been dissembled and put back together at least twice.

The remains of a massive blast furnace in what was once one of the country's largest iron-producing regions.