Best Mausoleum

The Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala, Iraq, marks the tomb of Husayn ibn Ali, killed at the Battle of Karbala in 680.

The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is a 425-450 building in Ravenna, Italy, famed for its early Christian mosaics despite not housing the empress.

The Mausoleum of Hadrian is the Roman emperor's tomb in Rome, built 123-139 AD and later converted into the papal fortress Castel Sant'Angelo.

The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was the 4th-century BC tomb of Mausolus in modern Turkey, designed by Greek architects and counted as a Seven Wonder.

Shah-i-Zinda is a necropolis in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, with tiled mausoleums from the 11th to 19th centuries along a narrow ceremonial street.

The Soltaniyeh Dome is the 14th-century mausoleum of Ilkhanid ruler Oljeitu in Iran, famous for one of the world's largest brick domes.

The Tomb of Seti I, KV17 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was discovered in 1817 and is noted for its extensive painted reliefs and long plan.

The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron is a Herodian-period enclosure revered as the burial place of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah.

Gur-e Amir is Timur's mausoleum in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, completed in the early 15th century and famed for its ribbed blue dome.

The Samanid Mausoleum is a 10th-century brick tomb in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, and one of the oldest surviving monuments of Islamic Central Asia.

The Tomb of Darius the Great is an Achaemenid royal rock-cut tomb at Naqsh-e Rostam in Iran, made for the king who ruled from 522 to 486 BC.

Gonbad-e Qabus is a 1006 brick tomb tower in Golestan, Iran, built for Ziyarid ruler Qabus ibn Voshmgir and rising over 50 meters.

The Tomb of Antiochus I is the royal sanctuary on Mount Nemrut in Turkey, built in the 1st century BCE with colossal statues and a burial mound.

The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi is a Timurid shrine in Turkistan, Kazakhstan, begun by Timur in 1389 for the Sufi poet and teacher.

The Mausoleum of Qalawun in Cairo is part of Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun's 1280s complex, famed for its Mamluk architecture and decoration.

The Tomb of Akbar the Great is the Mughal emperor's mausoleum at Sikandra, India, completed by Jahangir in 1613 and noted for its vast garden setting.

The Tomb of Sher Shah Suri is the Sur ruler's sandstone mausoleum at Sasaram, India, completed in 1545 on a plinth within an artificial lake.

The Mausoleum of Theodoric is the Ostrogothic king's tomb in Ravenna, built about 520 AD and notable for its single massive Istrian-stone roof.

The Mausoleum of Sultan Qaitbay in Cairo is a 15th-century Mamluk funerary complex, noted for one of the city's finest carved stone domes.

Al-Kadhimiya Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, contains the tombs of the seventh and ninth Twelver Shia imams, Musa al-Kadhim and Muhammad al-Jawad.

The Mausoleum of Mevlana Rumi is the shrine of the 13th-century poet and Sufi teacher in Konya, Turkey, now part of the Mevlana Museum.

The Tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah is Nur Jahan's Agra mausoleum for her father, built 1622-1628 and notable as an early Mughal white-marble tomb.

Ataturk Mausoleum is another name for Anitkabir in Ankara, the 1953 monumental tomb of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey.

Anitkabir is the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, Turkey, completed in 1953 as the central memorial to the republic's founder.

The Tomb of Jahangir is the Mughal emperor's 1637 mausoleum at Shahdara Bagh, Lahore, noted for frescoed interiors and pietra dura decoration.

The Mausoleum of Sultan Sanjar is a 12th-century Seljuk tomb in Merv, Turkmenistan, built for the sultan who ruled the Great Seljuk Empire.

Santa Costanza is a 4th-century Roman mausoleum for Constantina, daughter of Constantine I, noted for its circular plan and surviving mosaics.

The Saadian Tombs in Marrakesh are a 16th-century royal necropolis of Morocco's Saadian dynasty, rediscovered and opened in the early 20th century.

The Tomb of Suleiman the Magnificent is a 16th-century Ottoman mausoleum in Istanbul, beside Suleymaniye Mosque, honoring the empire's longest-reigning sultan.