The corpse bride of Portugal.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

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

To fit bodies into this Renaissance crypt, they were first left to decompose in the crypt's rotting room.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Burial site of a Jewish prophet revered in Iran.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.