Before entering the cemetery I strongly recommend either buying a guide, or photographing the map in the entrance (assuming your camera has a good LCD screen with zoom), because the layout sometimes defies logic, and you'll struggle to find such folk as Jim Morrison.

Whilst there, females looking to get pregnant might want to track down the tomb of Victor Noir (Yvan Salman), and rub his protruding trousers (just make sure you're not spotted by the authorities), or apply lipstick and kiss the already plastered tomb of Oscar Wilde.

www.paris-in-photos.com/pere-lachaise-cemetery/pere-lachaise-travel-guide.htm

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Although millions of tourists visit the west bank at Luxor every year the area is so rich in archaeology that it is not difficult to find quiet and equally spectacular monuments away from the hordes.

Just across the road from the bazaars and the coach-park at the Hatshepsut temple a jumble of mud-brick remains marks the cemetery of el-Asasif, site of some of the largest and most spectacular tombs anywhere in the country.

Three of its tombs are open to the public: that of Kheruef of the 18th Dynasty, and those of Pabasa and Ankh-hor of the 26th. Their subterranean ‘sun-courts’ are unique to this area, and each of the tombs preserves beautiful relief decoration of varying styles.

I would highly recommend taking a walk from here back to the road through the crumbling remains of tombs yet to be investigated; at the road I recommend hailing one of the local service taxis and riding back to the river with the locals for a few piasters, rather than taking a private car for 100 times the price.

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For jazz lovers, the grave of Adolphe Sax (November 6, 1814 – February 4, 1894), a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician (clarinetist), best known for inventing the saxophone is in Cimetière de Montmartre.

Montmartre cemetery, 37 Avenue Samson.

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It’s a long one. A very, very long one. Don’t worry though, if you’re lucky you’ll sleep through most of it. Make sure you bring plenty of things to do and a travel pillow. We drove through a maze of badly planned roads (which seem to get more and more complicated the further south you go) and into the bowels of a humongous ferry. Onboard you’ll be allowed off the coach (thank God!) so you can get breakfast at one of the overpriced shops on the steadily rising and falling boat. Be careful, it can be quite hard to stay upright when the floor constantly drops and then comes back up again. It takes a bit of getting used to, but you will eventually. The ferry journey should take about an hour or two.

After this, you’ll be in France! Yay! And after another five hours of coach journeying you’ll be in Normandy! ………..yay. Make sure you bring sun cream, hats and sunglasses, because it’s very hot! The weather is fantastic there and you’ll get a real shock when you arrive from rainy old England.

There’s a lot to do in Normandy - we explored the gun batteries at Longue Sur Mer, saw the Bayeux Tapestry and cathedral, looked around three world war two cemeteries, visited two (yes two!) different museums and watched a cool 360 degree film on the 360 cinema in Arromanches.

The British cemetery is a nice understated but well-kept place, the German Cemetery is very small and cramped with at least two people to a grave and the American Cemetery is a massive and superbly decorated place, with immaculately laid-out gravestones, all facing America. It practically screams “We Won The War” at you. You’ll notice the difference right away.

Finally, the 360 cinema is an amazing thing to see. It’s literally all around you. It can make you feel a bit dizzy so make sure you don’t accidentally start leaning sideways when the camera starts to turn!

From Tom Billson (age 14).

Arromanches 360
chemin du calvaire
14117 Arromanches les Bains
Tel : +33 (0) 2 31 22 30 30

Normandy American Cemetery
'Omaha Beach'
14710 Colleville sur Mer
France
Tel: 0231516200
www.abmc.gov

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Gorgeous cemetery in the edgy Nørrebro district. Originally built as an overflow to the central cemetery, it rapidly became THE place to be buried for Copenhageners. Extremely well kept and popular with sunbathers in the summer, you can find the graves of Denmark's two most famous writers there - Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard.

www.assistens.dk/

Just head up Norrebrogade, turn left into the cemetery at the first open gate.

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Opposite the Jardim da Estrela, near the end of the 28 tram route, is the walled English Cemetery - an extraordinary, overgrown jumble of graves, trees and stories. Not just English ones: all sorts of expats, adventurers, drifters and romantics ended up here. So did Henry Fielding, who came to Lisbon for his health, hated it and died. It feels like walking into a secret history of old Europe.

Rua de Sao Jorge, Estrela;
Metro: Rato, or catch tram 28

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Opened in 1848 to ease overcrowding elsewhere, this seven-acre burial ground features triple-decker catacombs spiralling down the sides of an old sand quarry. The remains of the printer John Baskerville lie here against his will as an atheist, after a canal was cut through his chosen unconsecrated resting place.

Sitting on the middle level of the spiral, resting your back against a now bricked-up catacomb and overlooking the trees below, is a beautifully tranquil experience. Only the faintest of traffic sounds can be heard as you share a moment with some of Birmingham's great pioneers.

Warstone Lane, Hockley. The Jewellery Quarter rail and Metro station is closest.

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A German friend showed me this astonishing and very moving place, which is currently being restored. I knew Berlin quite well but had never found the cemetery before. It had probably been closed. Here you can discover for yourself, in a way that is more impressive than visiting the Jewish Museum, the tragic story of Berlin's Jews.

Read Amos Elon's superb book 'The Pity of it All' and then come here both to mourn and celebrate the wonderful culture destroyed by 'Aryan' Germans in the 1930s and 40s.

Schönhauser Allee in Mitte

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