Top 8 Burial Sites

Courtesy of VirtualTourist.com

1.Burial of the Sardine; Spain
The Burial of the Sardine is one of the world's lighter burial ceremonies.
2.Bone House; Hallstatt, Austria
They dealt with lack of space by removing the skulls of the buried, painting them, and putting them on show.
3.Hanging Coffins; Sagada, Philippines
Unique burial ritual involving putting dead relatives into a hollowed out log which is taken to caves high in the cliffs.
4.Lemo Burial Site; Tana Toraja, Indonesia
Resembling dolls on a shelf, dozens of hand-made figures stand in the carved-out crevices of a local hillside.
5.Sky Burial; Tibet
A sky burial where a corpse was cut into small pieces and put out in the open for hovering vultures or other birds of prey in a gesture of charity.
6.Sunken Cemetery; Camiguin, Philippines
Wiped out by volcanic activity, the city of Camiguin and its cemetery sits under the sea, with a large cross marking the location of the old capital of the island.
7.Nazca Mummies; Nazca, Peru
Propped up as if welcoming their visitors, they wear their hair long.
8. Rock Tombs; Myra, Turkey
This imposing structure looks more like a castle than a graveyard.