LONDON — What are the first sights you seek when you travel to a new city? The museums? The top restaurants? Or the cemeteries? I choose cemeteries. Although some people think that’s weird, I find ...

When urban cemeteries started to fill up, the London Necropolis Railway was built for one purpose: to take the departed to an out-of-town burial ground. The enterance to the necropolis railway at ...

During the middle of the 19th Century, London’s burial sites had a much-needed revamp and rebrand. Out went graveyards – small and grim churchyard plots in residential areas – and in came cemeteries, ...

OK, yes, it sounds a bit morbid, but cemeteries can be beautifully atmospheric places, combining a post-apocalyptic, overgrown vibe with decaying gothic architecture of years past. A trip to Highgate ...

At two metres long and under a metre wide, the plot of land is bijou even by London standards. But plot 18946 is also scenic: like all the graves in Highgate Cemetery it offers an Edgar Allan Poe-ish, ...

There’s big news from beyond the grave. Plans to refurbish one of London’s most hauntingly beautiful landmarks have officially been approved. Highgate Cemetery, arguably the city’s most famous resting ...