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gokoku shrine
Japanese shrines for war dead
Xagħra Stone Circle
archaeological site
Majmuna Stone
Qadamgah
rock-cut monument in Fars, Iran
Waruga
thumb|Waruga with carvings thumb|Sawangan waruga
Northern Cemetery, Rostov-on-Don
cemetery in Russia
samadhi
Hindu temple commemorating the dead (similar to a tomb or mausoleum) which may or may not contain the body of the deceased
Vorstengraf Oss
burial mound in the Netherlands
Cave of the Ramban
archaeological site in Wadi al-Joz, Israel
Catacombs of Saint Gaudiosus
catacombs in Santa Maria della Sanità, Naples, Italy
stone circle
Iron Age burial site in Scandinavia
Ehrengrab
thumb|upright=1.0|Sign, Zentralfriedhof in [[Vienna]]
Virgil's tomb
Alleged tomb of Roman poet Virgil
Catherine de' Medici's building projects
Architecture under Catherine's patronage
Laudatio Turiae
Latin inscription
putridarium
upright=1.4|thumb|Stone seats in the putridarium in a Poor Clares convent cemetery, [[Castello Aragonese, Ischia]] 280px|thumb|Purgatorio ad Arco, Naples
plague cross
commemorative mark or monument to plague victims
Necropolis of Pranu Muttedu
archaeological site in Goni, Italy
wedge tomb
type of neolithic gallery grave in Ireland
Hirebenkal
archaeological site in Karnataka, India
mausoleo Schilizzi
cemetery in Naples, Italy
matzevah
A masseba or matzeva (,, plural maṣṣēḇoṯ) is a term used in the Hebrew Bible for a baetyl, a type of sacred column or standing stone. In the Septuagint, it is translated as .
ledger stone
horizontal tombstone
Chase Vault
burial vault
Nefesh
A nefesh (from ; , nefashot) is a Semitic funerary monument typically placed near a grave, intended to be seen from a distance as a visible marker of the deceased.
Geriten
thumb|right|A geriten. Geriten, or "head-house", is the skull-house of the Karo people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is a pavilion-like structure with a distinctively shaped roof that acted as an ossuary where the skulls of chiefs and important individuals were preserved after their deaths.
stone rubbing
images of surface features of a stone on paper
mortuary cult
ceremonial and religious form of a cult
Kistvaen
thumb|right|Kistvaen showing Coping (architecture)|capstone and [[cist structure (Dartmoor in Drizzlecombe)]] thumb|Kistvaen on the southern edge of Dartmoor in Drizzlecombe
cruciform passage grave
type of passage grave
Keramat Kusu
Shrine built in 1917 commemorating Syed Abdul Rahman as-Sakaf, his mother Nenk Ghalib, and sister Puteri Fatimah