For such a large, bustling city, it seems strange that there is only one cemetery for its citizens.
Made up of 106 acres of wide, scenic vistas, Mountain View has approximately 92,000 graves and 145,000 interred remains of former Vancouverites. A beautiful place to contemplate loved ones lost, it also serves as a natural museum of sorts for city history to remain preserved.
Located west of Fraser Street between 31st and 43rd Avenues
May 21, 2012
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Brooklyn, New York
The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.
