The Top Travel Destinations with Kevin Flanagan
Jul 30, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
French graves have been iconic tourist attractions ever since Père Lachaise Cemetery opened in 1804. In this episode, Kevin recounts an emotional visit to one of France's lesser-known but equally…
Should you visit Greys when you travel? Is the cemetery really a destination? I'd say yes, and I've tested the answer all over the world.
In Kathmandu, I stood at Pasun Panafe, the great Hindu temple on the banks of the Bagmati River, and watched the open-air crematoriums and the cremations, the smoke rising, the families gathered, grief and ritual carried out in plain sight.
In Dublin, for example, where I live, we have Glasnevin Cemetery which holds more than a million souls.
Victims of cholera epidemics, ordinary Dubliners and the giants of Irish history, Daniel O'Connell.
The Liberator lies there beneath his round tower alongside patriots and poets.
Glasnevin today runs guided tours and a museum, and it is quite simply one of the great attractions of the city, a mine of stories.
The French have raised the cemetery to an art form, No people on earth are quite so in love with the places where the dead are buried.
At first, nobody wanted to be buried there, so the city, in a stroke of marketing genius, it has to be said, moved in some, what other, than celebrities.
Today, Père Lachaise draws millions plus visitors a year, queuing for Chopin, queuing to see Oscar Wilde, whose tomb needed a glass screen to fend off lipstick kisses, and for, of course, Jim Morrison of the Dawes, whose grave has needed its own security.
Should you visit Greys when you travel? Is the cemetery really a destination? I'd say yes, and I've tested the answer all over the world.
In Kathmandu, I stood at Pasun Panafe, the great Hindu temple on the banks of the Bagmati River, and watched the open-air crematoriums and the cremations, the smoke rising, the families gathered, grief and ritual carried out in plain sight.
In Dublin, for example, where I live, we have Glasnevin Cemetery which holds more than a million souls.
Victims of cholera epidemics, ordinary Dubliners and the giants of Irish history, Daniel O'Connell.
The Liberator lies there beneath his round tower alongside patriots and poets.
Glasnevin today runs guided tours and a museum, and it is quite simply one of the great attractions of the city, a mine of stories.
The French have raised the cemetery to an art form, No people on earth are quite so in love with the places where the dead are buried.
At first, nobody wanted to be buried there, so the city, in a stroke of marketing genius, it has to be said, moved in some, what other, than celebrities.
Today, Père Lachaise draws millions plus visitors a year, queuing for Chopin, queuing to see Oscar Wilde, whose tomb needed a glass screen to fend off lipstick kisses, and for, of course, Jim Morrison of the Dawes, whose grave has needed its own security.
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