Gravestones

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

This local celebrity earned his fame by doing a job no one else dared.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

Vice President Humphrey's final resting place is tucked away in this cemetery along with a few other notable figures.

Richard Luke Concanen never set foot on American soil.

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

This memorial complex contains several mass graves for victims of the Siege of Leningrad.

Legends, sculptures, and unique tombs can be seen lurking in these connected cemeteries.

The final resting place of one of the most important figures in the world of tea.

Modernist design and funerary customs meet Spartan traditions in this one-of-a-kind graveyard.

The pyramid-shaped grave of one of the first mountain astronomers and a pyramid theorist.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.