You can't turn a walk through an elaborate old cemetery into a life-affirming experience when you visit Recoleta in Buenos Aires.

You can't take your wealth with you when you die, but you can leave something behind for everyone to remember you.

Coming up, we explore places that touch on the intersection between this world and the next.

The folks at Atlas Obscura can point you to hundreds of fascinating crypts and graveyards to visit, all with their own stories to tell.

If you want sort of spooky religious sites, Italy really is going to be the best bang for your buck.

And a clergywoman tells us how her travels have shown her the ways different societies confront mortality

and honor the body we leave behind.

It's not just dust when we're done with it and that's a lot of

the rituals of mourning of death have to do with treating the body with respect.

We're traveling with the not so grim reaper and the hour ahead on travel with Rick Steves.

Come along.

Just in time for Halloween, All Souls Day and the Day of the Dead, we're about to learn how people in different parts of the world honor the end of life.

An Episcopal deacon from Iowa tells us what she's discovered in her travels with the Grim Reaper.

And we'll hear about some of the unusual places in the Atlas Obscura Cabinet of Curiosities, sites that

run the gamut from sacred to creepy.

It's all just ahead on today's travel with Rick

Steve's. We're at 877 333 7425.

Cemeteries can be some of the most interesting, moving, and artistic sites in a city.

You can learn a lot about a society by visiting its leading graveyards,

and they welcome tourists.

Robert Wright is a guide who's lived and guided in Buenos Aires for many years,

and he considers that city's historic cemetery,

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