Cemeteries

One man's attempt to stay one step ahead of the church.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.

An imposing pair of sphinxes stand guard outside this Egyptian Revival tomb.

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

A tribute to a child prodigy who died way too young.

The Brigadier General was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a buzzer installed in his mausoleum, just in case he woke up.

A tomb in this cemetery holds soil from every country in Latin America.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.