Some spooky tales and legends always seem to gather around graveyards. There is some quality that invites such stories, a sense that something is not quite right and that the dead still walk among the tombs and gravestones. Cemeteries have long attracted tales of the paranormal, and some are wrapped around real historical people, grains. Read more »
The Untold Truth Of Pere Lachaise, The World s Most Visited Cemetery Shutterstock
By Kathy Benjamin/Feb. 8, 2021 12:57 pm EDT/Updated: March 23, 2021 10:23 pm EDT
If you never went through an emo phase, you might think it s weird that people like to visit cemeteries. And sure, some can be sad, uncared for, and small, but there are other cemeteries that are basically a combination art gallery and beautiful park.
Pere Lachaise in Paris might be the most stunning of them all. As the Encyclopedia Britannica notes, it s probably the most visited cemetery in the world (it s impossible to know for sure, since Pere Lachaise, like most cemeteries, doesn t actually count up the people who come there, but the superlative is generally accepted by people who know about these things.)