It's London Month of the Dead, so we spent the day hanging out with 20,000 corpses

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LONDON — Paris has its jaw-dropping bony catacombs, the Czech Republic has its ornate church of skeletons, but in typically British fashion, London’s cathedral to death is far less showy. In fact, it's on a roundabout.

Yes, the capital’s biggest gang of dead people live on a traffic island.

Closed to the public, the Rotunda is a mysterious structure that's attached to the Barbican complex as part of the Museum of London. It's where we choose to kick off London Month of the Dead — an event that sets out to “investigate the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents” — and make five new dead friends (see below). Read more...

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