Victorian Metropolitan Sepulchre

Victorian Metropolitan Sepulchre

Victorian London was frantically looking for a solution for what to do with all its dead, and an architect named Thomas Wilson proposed the Metropolitan Sepulchre, a 94-storey "Death Pyramid." It would have been the tallest building in London and could have held up to 5 million bodies. The project even got financial support but ultimately never materialized.

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