TOP 5 CEMETERIES IN USA TO VISIT

There are many important and famous names buried beneath the soil at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Such personas as Henry Wadsworth, Mary Baker Eddy, and Winslow Homer all rest here. This beautiful cemetery was founded in 1831 and is nestled amongst formal gardens, magnificent oak and maple trees, set alongside the rolling hilled landscape. It makes for a wonderful visit, and with its white tower, offers the visitor a high vantage point to oversee the entire cemetery. Indeed, it was the first landscaped garden area to be opened to the public, and this in turn gave birth to the US formal park system.

This amazing cemetery fits into just one square block and has a thousand above ground vaults. Among the dead buried here are Barthelemy Lafon (the architect turned pirate), and a legend says that the voodoo priestess Marie Laveau also rests here. This cemetery is located near the French Quarter and since it was founded in 1789 it is the oldest cemetery in New Orleans.

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Jean-Michel Basquait are just two of the many famous names to be interred at Green Wood Cemetery. Many beautiful tombstones, mausoleums, and granite monuments adorn this cemetery. The cemetery takes up around 478 acres, and is very park like, containing serene ponds, steep hillsides and magnificent gothic entrance gate built around 1861. With the Manhattan skyline peering over the top, this cemetery is also home to the members of the Roosevelt family, including the former president too.

With over 25,000 graves over 25 acres, this lovely cemetery captures the spirit of the early pioneers, Block 14, and there is also a memorial dedicated to the immigrants from China who helped build the city. Another highlight is the gothic style mausoleum of the MacLeay family. This cemetery is unique in that it allows for the burial of a tree in memory of the deceased.

This cemetery of Hollywood stars overlooks the Tinseltown studios. Here you may find the graves of many celebrities, including Michael Jackson (at nearby Glendale), Bette Davis, Tom Bosley of Happy Days fame, and even the great Liberace. Despite the high presence of the Hollywood residents buried here, the graves are not as glitzy as one may imagine.

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