Posted in Fashion / Fashion blog / Fashion photo shoots / Fashion pictures Ohlsdorf Cemetery is so big it’s more like a gated city for the dead. Over 1.5 million burials have ceremonially taken place on the sweeping grounds of the Hamburg landmark, and it holds the title of the largest non-military cemetery in the world. Consider this, though: it’s also a tourist attraction. The grand mausoleums and flowering rhododendrons are visual wonderment to those who crave peaceful garden-like beauty, drawing bigger crowds even than just those who find the graves themselves hauntingly fascinating, historical, or perhaps a bittersweet reminder of life’s ephemeral fragility. And so death, that unwelcome hand of decay, becomes mingled with the freshness of flowers and the beauty of life. Life and death are poles that can’t exist independently of eachother, after all. And the world above is free to roam and marvel at the sleeping world below. Article continues . To read it in full visit ‘ Darkness in the Garden of Angels ‘ at Fashionising.com