Discover the fascinating stories of the world's most beautiful cemeteries, featuring spectacular photography, unique histories and famous residents. Cities of the Dead takes us on a tour of memorial sites, ranging from monastic settlements to grand cathedrals, Shinto shrines to Gothic chapels, tombs and crypts. Enjoy tales of myths and monsters, grave-robbers, pilgrimages, spiritual retreats, remembrance and community. Marvel in cemeteries with a hundred thousand to a handful of graves which feature famous headstones, weeping angels, ocean views, woodlands, thousands of glowing lanterns and a tomb of poets. From London's famous Highgate Cemetery, which houses famous names from Karl Marx to Malcolm McLaren, George Eliot to Christina Rosetti, to Hawaii's breathtaking Valley of the Temples, this book spans the globe to bring you the most fascinating, intriguing and evocative cemeteries across cultures and continents. Together with evocative images, the stories behind these notable burial sites bring these sanctuaries to life, detailing the features that make them special, highlighting both similarities and differences between time periods, religions and cultures, and showing how cemeteries are about and for the living as much as the dead.

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USA Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles, California, USA Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, USA Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Terlingua Cemetery, Texas, USA Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA Mount Hope, Rochester, New York, USA Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Valley of the Temples, Kaneohe, Oʻahu, Hawaii, USA Cementerio Municipal Sara Braun, Punta Arenas, Chile Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina Cemitério São Joao Batista, Botofaga, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Pisagua Viejo Cementério, Tarapacá region, Chile Cementério Municipal Jose María Azaél Franco Guerrero, Tulcán, Carchi province, Ecuador Cementerio Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis, San Juan, Puerto Rico Mount Pleasant, Toronto, Canada Highgate Cemetery, London, England Abney Park Cemetery, London, England St Mary's Church Graveyard, Whitby, Yorkshire, England Rèilig Odhrain, Iona, Scottish Hebrides, Scotland Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow, Scotland Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, England Glendalough Graveyard, Co. Wicklow, Ireland Isola di San Michele, Venice, Italy Pere Lachaise, Paris, France Merry Cemetery (Cimitirul Vesel), Sapânța, Romania Skogskyrkogarden Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden Gubbio Cemetery Mount Ingino, Umbria, Italy Sighisoara German Church on the Hill and Cemetery, Romania Okopowa Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland Montjuïc Cemetery, Barcelona, Spain Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague, Czechoslovakia Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary Cimitero Acattolico (Protestant Cemetery), Rome, Italy Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England Brompton Cemetery, London, England Zentralfriedhof, Simmering, Vienna Douaumont Ossuary/Verdun Memorial, Verdun, France Gran Camposanto, Messina, Italy Cemitério do Alto de São João, Lisbon, Portugal City of the Dead, Dargavs, Caucasus Mountains, Russia Waverley Cemetery, Sydney, NSW, Australia Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel Okunoin Cemetery, Mount Koya, Japan Maqbaratol Shoara, Tabriz, Iran Novodevichye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia Fadiouth Shell Island, Joal-Fadiouth, Mbour, Senegal Issyk-Kul cemeteries, Kyrgyzstan