Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries

Sacramento, California, US

Sacramento Old City Cemetery

Sacramento's Oldest Existing Cemetery

Take a tour of this beautiful old cemetery to see graves of California Gold Rush-era governors, murderers, criminals, ladies of the night, Chinese immigrants, and other historical persons of... »

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Seattle, Washington, US

Lake View Cemetery

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Located on a breathtaking expanse atop Capitol Hill, this burial ground was established in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery, changing its name to the Lake View Cemetery in 1890. Now nestled in... »

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Paris, France

Foucoult's Pendulum and the Paris Pantheon

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists

In 1851, physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth with an experiment conducted in the Paris Panthéon. By constructing a fixed 67-meter swinging led bob beneath the central... »

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London, United Kingdom

The Cross Bones Graveyard

Medieval prostitute cemetery on the outskirts of London

Post-medieval London was a place of decency, civility and god-fearing. But post-medieval suburbs of London were another story, filled with prostitution, disease and mass burial in Cross Bones... »

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Grand Chemins, Jersey

La Hougue Bie

A passage grave used in neolithic rituals

Although it has long since been appropriated by two Christian chapels, La Hougue Bie was at one time the site of a vastly different set of spiritual rituals, dating back to 3500 BCE. Hougue is... »

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Dom Hotel, Germany

Jewish Cemetery in Worms

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany

Besides Jewish burials in Roman catacombs, the Jewish Cemetery in Worms has the oldest Jewish graves in Europe, and is the amazing survivor of the brutality of Hitler's Third Reich. The... »

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Cairo, Egypt

Cairo's City of the Dead

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead

Just outside of Cairo, this City of the Dead used to house only corpses dating back to the 7th century. Created as an Arabic cemetery during the conquest of Egypt, the necropolis has developed... »

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Oddington, United Kingdom

Memento-Mori Hamsterley Brass

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries

Before Ralph Hamsterley died in 1518, he commissioned five brass memorial plaques in his own honor, leaving the death date blank. The memento-mori plaque embedded in the floor of St. Andrew’s... »

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Bellevaux-Ligneuville, Belgium

M. Hawarden de Ligneuville

In the beautiful town of Malmedy you to visit soon as it is truly a visit, so take a detour to the cemetery Ligneuville. A tomb bearing the name of Mr. Hawarden there. While this view as it does... »

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Nokhur, Turkmenistan

Nokhur Cemetery

Cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones

At the cemetery of the isolated village of Nokhur, nearly every grave is marked by a wooden post adorned with the horns of a mountain goat. They are thought to fight off evil spirits, and help the... »

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