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Cimetière du Père Lachaise
Paris, France
Why you’re visiting: To fit in with your study abroad friends, as this is the most visited cemetery in the world.
Marketing this place as the hub of Paris’ dead rich and famous was the only way to get the burial hype started here back when it opened; since then, business has boomed -- the list of famous corpses now buried there includes Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Frederic Chopin, Marcel Proust, and Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani. Wilde’s tomb is one of the garden cemetery’s most famous and is covered in the lipstick kisses of admirers.
THE 13 COOLEST CEMETERIES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE
Cimetière du Père Lachaise
Paris, France
Why you’re visiting: To fit in with your study abroad friends, as this is the most visited cemetery in the world.
Marketing this place as the hub of Paris’ dead rich and famous was the only way to get the burial hype started here back when it opened; since then, business has boomed -- the list of famous corpses now buried there includes Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Frederic Chopin, Marcel Proust, and Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani. Wilde’s tomb is one of the garden cemetery’s most famous and is covered in the lipstick kisses of admirers.