Varanasi

One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities and the holiest site in Hinduism — a place where the sacred geography of a civilization has been maintained without interruption for over three thousand years.

The oldest city in the world has been continuously inhabited for at least three thousand years. People have been coming here to die — believing that dying here guarantees liberation — for as long as we can trace the record. What does it mean for a city to exist primarily as a passage between worlds?