Kitty Dukakis(2025)· American author (1936–2025)✦
George Foreman(2025)· American boxer (1949–2025)✦
Willis Reed(2023)· American basketball player (1942–2023)✦
Nawal El Saadawi(2021)· Egyptian feminist writer, activist, doctor and psychiatrist (1931–2021)✦Victor Hochhauser(2019)· British music promoter (1923–2019)✦
Gonzalo Portocarrero(2019)· Peruvian sociologist (1949–2019)✦
Chuck Barris(2017)· American game show host (1929–2017)✦
Colin Dexter(2017)· English writer (1930–2017)✦EXPLORE THE WORLD'S CEMETERIES
CEMETERY TOURS
From Paris to Savannah, the world's most extraordinary burial grounds are waiting. Some you can visit from your armchair.
🇫🇷 Père Lachaise
Paris, France
The world's most visited cemetery, home to Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, and Édith Piaf. Its winding cobblestone paths feel like a small city of the dead.
EXPLORE →🇬🇧 Highgate Cemetery
London, England
A Victorian Gothic masterpiece overgrown with ivy and atmosphere. Karl Marx and George Eliot rest among its Egyptian Avenue and Circle of Lebanon.
EXPLORE →🇺🇸 St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, USA
New Orleans' oldest surviving cemetery, where above-ground tombs reflect the city's French and Spanish heritage and its unique relationship with death.
EXPLORE →🇨🇿 Sedlec Ossuary
Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
A small Roman Catholic chapel decorated with the bones of approximately 40,000–70,000 people. The chandelier alone contains every bone in the human body.
EXPLORE →🇮🇹 Capuchin Crypt
Rome, Italy
Five chapels beneath Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, decorated with the bones of 3,700 Capuchin friars. A meditation on mortality unlike any other.
EXPLORE →🇺🇸 Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York, USA
A National Historic Landmark and the inspiration for Central Park. Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, and Jean-Michel Basquiat are among its permanent residents.
EXPLORE →🇺🇸 Hollywood Forever
Los Angeles, USA
The final resting place of Hollywood legends including Rudolph Valentino, Cecil B. DeMille, and Judy Garland. Still hosts outdoor film screenings in summer.
EXPLORE →🇺🇸 Bonaventure Cemetery
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Made famous by Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, this Spanish moss-draped cemetery on a bluff above the Wilmington River is hauntingly beautiful.
EXPLORE →PLAN YOUR VISIT
Five principles for respectful cemetery tourism.
Visit during daylight hours — most cemeteries close at dusk and photography is best in the golden hour.
Keep voices low and phones on silent. Active burials and grieving families deserve your respect.
Ask permission before photographing headstones with recent dates — some families find this intrusive.
Stay on designated paths. Stepping on graves is considered deeply disrespectful in most cultures.
Never remove flowers, stones, or any objects left as offerings. These are meaningful to the bereaved.
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