Cemetery↕ | Location↕ | Founded↕ | Notable Burial↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pere Lachaise | Paris, France | 1804 | Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf | Most visited cemetery in the world, 70,000+ graves, Gothic tombs, Jim Morrison's graffiti-covered grave |
Arlington National Cemetery | Virginia, USA | 1864 | JFK, Unknown Soldiers | 400,000+ military graves, Eternal Flame at JFK's grave, Changing of the Guard, 639 acres of white headstones |
Highgate Cemetery | London, UK | 1839 | Karl Marx, George Eliot | Victorian Gothic atmosphere, Karl Marx's massive bust, vampire legends in the 1970s, overgrown ivy aesthetic |
Recoleta Cemetery | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1822 | Eva Peron | City of the dead, elaborate mausoleums like mini cathedrals, Evita's tomb draws pilgrims, 4,691 vaults |
Green-Wood Cemetery | Brooklyn, New York, USA | 1838 | Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat | National Historic Landmark, 478 acres, Gothic Revival entrance, inspired Central Park's design |
Okunoin Cemetery | Koyasan, Japan | 835 AD | Kobo Daishi (Kukai) | 200,000+ tombstones along a cedar-lined path, lanterns lit at dusk, Buddhist pilgrimage, Shingon monks still serve meals to Kukai |
La Almudena | Madrid, Spain | 1884 | Spanish Civil War victims | Largest cemetery in Western Europe, 5 million+ interments, adjacent to the Royal Palace, Spanish history in stone |
Zentralfriedhof | Vienna, Austria | 1874 | Beethoven, Brahms, Strauss, Schubert | Classical music's Hall of Fame, 3.3 million burials, larger than the inner city, honorary graves of composers |
Glasnevin Cemetery | Dublin, Ireland | 1832 | Michael Collins, Daniel O'Connell | Ireland's national cemetery, 1.5 million burials, round tower landmark, Irish independence leaders |
Waverley Cemetery | Sydney, Australia | 1877 | Henry Lawson | Clifftop ocean views, most beautiful cemetery setting, Victorian and Edwardian monuments, coastal walk attraction |
Staglieno Cemetery | Genoa, Italy | 1851 | Giuseppe Mazzini | Outdoor sculpture museum, hyper-realistic marble statues of the dead, Mark Twain called it a work of art |
Merry Cemetery | Sapanta, Romania | 1935 | Villagers with colorful epitaphs | Brightly painted wooden crosses with humorous poems about the dead, celebrates life not death, folk art masterpiece |
Cimetiere du Montparnasse | Paris, France | 1824 | Sartre, Beauvoir, Baudelaire, Beckett | Intellectuals' final resting place, existentialists side by side, quieter alternative to Pere Lachaise |
Boot Hill | Tombstone, Arizona, USA | 1878 | Outlaws from O.K. Corral | Wild West cemetery, gunfighters and outlaws, Tombstone legends, wooden grave markers, tourist attraction |
Cementerio de la Chacarita | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1871 | Carlos Gardel | Largest cemetery in Argentina, tango legend Gardel's tomb, yellow fever epidemic origin, working-class counterpart to Recoleta |
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