A view of the grave of english poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) in the Rome's tiny Non-Catholic Cemetery . This romantic 'cemetery of poets' possibly contains the highest density of famous and important bones anywhere in the world: the cramped final resting place of the poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley; dozens of diplomats; the Bulgari family; Goethe's only son August and Antonio Gramsci; a founding father of European Communism; to name a few. 'It might make one in love with death; to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place;' wrote Shelley; several years before he drowned and was buried here.With towering cypress trees protecting a hodgepodge of elaborate and eclectic graves and monuments; nestled on a hill in the shadows of the Pyramid of Cestius (12 B.C.) and a section of the city's ancient Aurelian wall; this precious bit of paradise is decaying and in financial crisis; recently added to the World Monument Fund's 2006 Watch List of the 100 most endangered sites on earth. rome; Italy. Feb.2006. Photo by Eric Vandeville/akg-images