which he spread on the grounds and turned the cemetery into Sacred Fields (which subsequently made it a sought-after burial location). The ossuary was designed in the Baroque Gothic style by ...

Died 28 April 1881.” The Hyde Park pet cemetery still exists today. Paul Koudounaris Cherry’s family likely had no idea, but they had just committed a “revolutionary act,” says Paul ...

Paris ranks third, scoring 49 points, and offers a range of spooky activities, including visits to the chilling Père Lachaise ...

In Osaka, citizens filed a lawsuit out of concern for the sustainability of one ossuary. They demanded that the city revoke its permission for the facility to be established. In 2015, a resident ...

The Czech Republic is packed with history, and this medieval town may be one of its most fascinating. It's no wonder that ...

Europe is a continent steeped in history, and with that history comes tales of restless spirits, haunted castles and ghostly ...

Renowned author Robert Macfarlane has described his work as being about the relationship between landscape and the human ...

In addition to being a gorgeous cemetery, the Neptune Memorial Reef is also a green burial location, meaning it’s a resting site that benefits the environment. The human-made structure allows ...

However, some cemeteries, such as St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, require you to join a guided tour to visit. These tours differ from New Orleans' ghost tours, which tell spooky stories of NOLA's ...

The metaphors we live by, to use that wonderful phrase, are very often taken from place, from landscape. Paths, rivers, mountains — these are the founding forms of our oldest st ...

These family tombs with branching chambers, which had been hewn out of soft limestone, belong to the Jewish cemetery of Jesus ... of the man was incised on his ossuary in letters 2 cm high ...

The bones of some 30,000 victims of plague—a disease that may have been borne by fleas carried by rodents—decorate the Sedlec Ossuary, a small Roman Catholic chapel beneath the Cemetery Church ...