Cemeteries in France

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

A melancholy jester sits on the grave of a famous 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

The formerly unmarked grave of the noted Black American painter, who was a friend to James Baldwin.

The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.