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Highgate Cemetery
London, England
Why you’re visiting: To see the cemetery’s most famous dead dude, Karl Marx
Highgate is one of seven garden-like cemeteries that were built in a ring around London in the 19th-century, when inner-city burial grounds had become overcrowded and putrid and stinky. Today, this is a shady place (as in, from the sun, not for finding sketchy dudes selling smack) for an escape from the city -- Gothic tombs and buildings are now overgrown with ivy, and the vault-lined passageway known as the Egyptian Avenue is just as impressive as ever.
THE 13 COOLEST CEMETERIES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE
Highgate Cemetery
London, England
Why you’re visiting: To see the cemetery’s most famous dead dude, Karl Marx
Highgate is one of seven garden-like cemeteries that were built in a ring around London in the 19th-century, when inner-city burial grounds had become overcrowded and putrid and stinky. Today, this is a shady place (as in, from the sun, not for finding sketchy dudes selling smack) for an escape from the city -- Gothic tombs and buildings are now overgrown with ivy, and the vault-lined passageway known as the Egyptian Avenue is just as impressive as ever.