Cemetery - Special Cemeteries

Special Cemeteries

  • The Merry Cemetery in Săpânţa, Romania has extravagantly decorated grave markers with original epitaphs.
  • The Cross Bones, a burial ground in London for prostitutes
  • The British Cemetery in Madrid, a cemetery for Protestants and Spanish suicides.
  • The "Mafia cemetery" in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where murdered gangsters were buried under elaborate gravestones.
  • The Manila Chinese Cemetery in the Philippines has richly decorated mausoleums.
  • The Neptune Memorial Reef is an underwater burial ground for cremated remains.

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