There are no finely cut markers with dates or names, let alone a fanciful verse or a carved angel. There is no gate, nor a sign warning visitors that they have entered hallowed ground.
Author: VicesAndGraves
A tunnel to the other side
On the north side of Old San Juan lies the Santa MarĂa Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery, also called the Old San Juan cemetery. Built in 1863, this place houses many permanent residents who were famous and prominent Puerto Ricans in their day. In March 2020 I took a morning stroll through this space while in…
A hill of peaceful resistance
In a sparsely populated corner of Lithuania sits a hill that is adorned with an estimated over 150,000 crosses, as well as statues, rosaries, cards to loved ones, carvings, and more. (While this site isn’t a graveyard, I’ll give it a pass since it’s so epic… and hey, I run this site; I can do…
A backyard in the East Village
If you didn’t know this was here, you would never know this was here…
A legendary block in the heart of New Orleans
Most people go to New Orleans for the food, the drink, or the debauchery…
An ambition of every New Yorker
From the tallest spot in Brooklyn, a view of the Manhattan skyline…
A caribbean, oceanfront property… for the dead
When you turn the corner of the Manhattan-esque cavern and spot an abandoned shopping cart in the middle of the avenue…
An empty chapel and a black cat
Tip-toeing between a couple of graves I found a bone sitting in the grass (was it human?)…
A wildly overgrown and hidden cemetery
A stone chapel reminiscent of Hagrid’s hut, down an overgrown, derelict public path…
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