Metropolitan Sepulchre

Metropolitan Sepulchre

London officials during the Victorian era were frantically looking for a solution for what to do with all their dead. That’s when architect Thomas Wilson proposed the Metropolitan Sepulchre. It was supposed to be a 94-story "Death Pyramid." It would have dominated London’s skyline and housed up to 5 million bodies. The project however never materialized for obvious reasons.

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