Cemeteries in Brooklyn

Every spring brings a colorful tribute to this wizardly actor's most famous role.

The Father of the Erie Canal has a magnificent grave marker that redefines the term "final resting place."

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

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.

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

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

This recipe is set in stone.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.