Cemeteries

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.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

A family recipe is just one of several touches that make this Hebrew headstone special.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.