A Slovak feature rounds up the most beautiful cemeteries in the world, and the statues in some of them are enough to give you shivers. Say the word 'cemetery' and most people picture silence above all else, the author suggests. The places on this list look nothing like that narrow image. Wide garden paths run between marble angel statues, and mausoleums on the grounds could have come straight from a Roman architect's sketchbook. What sets these sites apart is sculpture and architecture layered with a few centuries of history. Visit the right one, the text argues, and it stops feeling like a graveyard at all. It starts to feel like a museum, open air and free to walk through. The chill factor is part of the draw, since carvings that old tend to be unsettling as well as beautiful.