Cemeteries in Virginia

An unkempt, oddly placed piece of land keeps an elderly farming couple in a residential area.

The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.

The final resting place of a prominent Black American farming family sits in the shadows of an IKEA store.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

The all-but-forgotten cemetery is Eastern Loudon County's largest African-American burial ground.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.