Families decorating graves for Day of the Dead, Templo de Guadalupe, Real de Catorce, former silver mining town, San Luis Potosi state, Mexico, North America

View of the cemetery in Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited location on Earth, Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean

Monument to Thomas Machen, died 1614, his wife and 13 children, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Ducal Vault (Fuerstengruft), holding graves of Goethe, Schiller and ducal family, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

Dashwood family mausoleum near church, overlooking town of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Gravestone of William Fitzpatrick and his family in churchyard at Corofin, County Clare, West of Ireland

A family home in the town of Lufilufi on the island of Upolu, Samoa, South Pacific Islands, Pacific

Syria, Palmyra, Underground Family Grave

Tomb of Piers Butler and Margaret Fitzgerald, St Canice's Cathedral or Kilkenny Cathedral, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland, British Isles, Europe

Grave of the Ratzinger family, the parents and the sister of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedikt XVI, in Penting near Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Ahar, cenotaph, tomb of the royal Mewar family, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Statue of a woman carrying a cross on a 19th century family grave, Johannisfriedhof cemetery, founded in the 13th century, Brueckenstrasse street 9, Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Elaborate tombs at a cemetery near Ascona, family graves, Ticino, Switzerland, Europe

Grave slabs of the imperial family, Peter and Paul Cathedral, Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Europe

China, Jiangsu, Qidong, Qingming Festival when Chinese people honour their ancestors and deceased family members by visiting their graves or burial grounds to make offerings of fake bank notes and gold ingots which are then burned As the burning of offerings in not allowed inside most cemetries for safety reasons they are burned in the gutter outside.

Monumental tomb at Cap Corse. Piccioni family mausoleum in Pino. This magnificent tomb contains the ashes of Valentine Eiffel, daughter of engineer Gustave Eiffel and wife of diplomat Camille Piccioni. Monumental tombs are part of traditional Corsican architecture and are often spectacular and ostentatious. They generally date from the 19th century.