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Macabre sites worth the detour

2,188 macabre sites on Detourmap, in 121 countries — catacombs, ossuaries, burial grounds and the sites of disasters. The most famous is Titanic. The 96 best known are below.

On the map
2,188
Countries
121
With a page
32
Little known
1,664 of 2,188

Macabre sites by country

Every country with at least one. Those with 8 or more have their own page.

Macabre sites by continent

Europe829 Asia130 Africa96 North America494 Oceania104

Questions about this page

What counts as macabre sites here?

Catacombs, ossuaries, burial grounds and the sites of disasters. They are a subset of archaeological & historic sites on this atlas, split out because it is how people look for them.

Which country has the most macabre sites?

United States (440), United Kingdom (195) and Australia (81). That ranks how much Wikidata records rather than what exists on the ground.

What is the most famous?

Titanic. British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in 1912.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

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