Gravestones

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.