I'm not really one for hanging around cemeteries, but Novo groblje in Belgrade totally blew me away. Despite its name, it's actually one of the oldest active cemeteries in the city. 150 years in and they still haven't renamed it to "Old" :)

Walking through here feels like you're in a museum—sculptures, monuments, and history everywhere you look. Even when they were just planning it out, the authorities made sure to learn from past burial mistakes and designed the space properly from the start. And get this: since 1884, they've managed to keep it from becoming a chaotic mess of graves. The whole area is divided into sections—there's a special block for notable people, monuments to victims of the world wars, and even a separate area for Russian white émigrés.

What really catches your eye are the gravestones with no death date on them (and there are quite a few). Turns out these people are still... alive. When one spouse passes away, sometimes families order a monument for both of them right away, but they only carve in the dates they know. It's basically a way of saying the living partner will stay faithful and take their place beside them when their time comes. It was pretty strange to see at first, but apparently it's just how things are done here.