Cemeteries in Louisiana

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.