中文简介：

本书带我们参观了各种纪念场所，从修道院到大教堂，从神道圣地到哥特式小教堂，从坟墓到地下墓穴。欣赏神话和怪兽、盗墓者、朝圣、精神静修、纪念和社区的故事。在拥有十几万到几十万座坟墓的公墓里，你会惊叹于名人墓碑、哭泣的天使、海景、林地、成千上万的发光灯笼和诗人的坟墓。

本书图文并茂，生动呈现了这些知名墓地背后的故事，详细介绍了它们的特征，强调了不同时期、宗教和文化之间的相似性和差异性，并展示了墓地是如何与生者和死者有关的。

英文简介：

Cities of the Dead takes us on a tour of memorial sites, ranging from monastic settlements to grand cathedrals, Shinto shrines to Gothic chapels, tombs and crypts. 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.

Together with evocative images, the stories behind these notable burial sites bring these sanctuaries to life, detailing the features that make them special, highlighting both similarities and differences between time periods, religions and cultures, and showing how cemeteries are about and for the living as much as the dead.