Burial Places

These unassuming buildings in the tranquil churchyard of rural Warblington are in fact grave watchers’ huts.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

This cemetery in Velha Goa was once the site of several historical religious buildings.

The remnants of a 1849 sunken ship lie underneath a building.

The oldest headstone in Connecticut.

Unbeknownst to many, this fountain was erected as a tomb and still holds the remains of a Frenchman.

The ruins of a 17th-century Carmelite Convent atop a hill in Old Goa.

An eerie cluster of medieval cave-like tombs carved out of a cliff, hidden in a historic mountain pass.

This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.

Unique and somewhat surreal, this little girl's memorial depicts a playful Jesus.

Wander through a maze of empty tombs to find the poles used to hang revolutionary patriots.

Six separate cemeteries became one, on the grounds of a former schoolhouse.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

This “grave” memorializes the 53 rakugo stories that were once banned by the national censorship.