You can 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 the 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 in the hour ahead on travel with Rick Steves.

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Just in time for Halloween, all souls day in the day of the dead we're about to learn

how people in different parts of the world honor the end of life.

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