A bust stolen from Jim Morrison’s gravesite in Paris was found in May. But many questions linger about who took it and why.

In 1981, for the tenth anniversary of his death at the age of 27, a sculpture was installed on the grave of legendary American singer-poet Jim Morrison at Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. The ...

A bust depicting Jim Morrison, made by artist Mladen Mikulin, was stolen in 1981. Paris police revealed they found the bust 37 years after it was taken from the singer's grave. Morrison died at age 27 ...

Père Lachaise is the largest cemetery in France, and has become a tourist attraction on par with some of the city's other ...

Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife, too. By Constant Méheut ...

Doctors work closely to death. Writers work with an eye to posterity. “I have always loved cemeteries and find them almost as irresistible as bookshops,” the doctor-writer Anthony Daniels observes in ...

Il y a ceux que la mort attire. Ceux qui la craignent et la fuient. Et il y a Benoît Gallot qui la côtoie depuis sa plus tendre enfance et jusque dans son quotidien. Ce fils, petits-fils et ...

Espaces de recueillement où reposent les défunts, les cimetières, à la fois cultuels et culturels, sont devenus au fil des ...

Yesterday, I met up with a motley crew of creative ex-pats: an architecture professor/tour guide, an architect intern/waiter, a chef, and an IT whiz/trumpet player learning French in Paris. We began ...

The sculpture went missing in 1988 under mysterious circumstances. The grave of Jim Morrison at Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France. Photo: Bruno de Hogues / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Min Chen ...