<B>Discover the fascinating stories of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries, featuring spectacular photography, unique histories and famous residents.</B><BR/> <BR/><I>Cities of the Dead</I> takes us on a tour of memorial sites, ranging from <B>monastic settlements </B>to <B>grand cathedrals</B>, <B>Shinto shrines </B>to <B>Gothic chapels</B>, <B>tombs </B>and <B>crypts</B>. Enjoy tales of myths and monsters, grave-robbers, pilgrimages, spiritual retreats, remembrance and community. Marvel in cemeteries with a hundred thousand to a handful of graves which feature famous headstones, weeping angels, ocean views, woodlands, thousands of glowing lanterns and a tomb of poets.<BR/><BR/> From <B>London's famous Highgate Cemetery,</B> which houses famous names from Karl Marx to Malcolm McLaren, George Eliot to Christina Rosetti, to <B>Hawaii's breathtaking Valley of the Temples, </B>this book spans the globe to bring you the most<B> fascinating, intriguing and