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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA -

Perched on one of San Diego’s hillsides, this 1882 federal military cemetery offers gorgeous views of the Pacific Ocean.

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Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL -

This Victorian-era cemetery dates back to 1860 and is the resting place of industrialist George Pullman, inventor of the Pullman sleeping car.

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Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA -

This historic cemetery dates back to 1855 and has been abandoned since its last board member died in 2011.

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St. Louis No. 1, New Orleans, LA -

Established in 1789, this cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places for its architecture, including its characteristic above-ground tombs. Voodoo priestess Marie Laveau is believed to be buried here.

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Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA -

Some of Philly’s richest citizens are buried here. The graveyard also acted as an important public park before public parks existed.

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Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO -

This 1849 cemetery is the resting place of several Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as some notable figures such as Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, and co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, Adolphus Busch. 

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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY -

This originally rural cemetery was founded in 1838 and is known for its Gothic revival entrance gates. They were designated a New York City landmark in 1966.

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Goldfield Cemetery, Goldfield, NV -

This simple 1905 cemetery has a special mystique about it. Some of the markers include the person’s manner of death.

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Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA -

This 1849 cemetery serves as the resting place of US Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler, as well as the only Confederate States President, Jefferson Davis.

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Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA -

Established in 1937, this was built at a time when San Francisco citizens voted to stop the construction of new cemeteries in the city. The cemetery is similar to Arlington National Cemetery, in that more than 140,000 military graves can be found here.

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Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, MA -

This historic 275-acre cemetery now also serves as an arboretum and sculpture garden, which includes works by Daniel Chester French and John Wilson.

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Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH -

This 285-acre cemetery is the final resting place of John D. Rockefeller, James A. Garfield, and Eliot Ness.

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Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY -

This Civil War-era cemetery opened in 1863 and serves as the resting place of many notable American artists. Among those buried there is author Herman Melville whose grave is pictured here, as well as the musicians Irving Berlin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, W. C. Handy, and Max Roach.

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Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA -

This cemetery started out on a six-acre plot in 1850 and has evolved into a Victorian-style cemetery that reflects the "garden cemetery" movement.

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Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD -

This 1838 cemetery houses the graves of many interesting figures, including Napoleon Bonaparte's sister-in-law Betsy Patterson, and John Wilkes Booth, the man behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA -

The first rural cemetery in the United States, it is also an arboretum, representing Watertown’s largest contiguous open space. 

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Anamosa State Penitentiary Cemetery, Anamosa, IA -

The graves found in this cemetery are filled with inmates whose bodies were never claimed. They were buried in common graves containing up to eight bodies.

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Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC -

Dedicated in 1850, the cemetery added to the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1978.

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Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, TN -

Some of this graveyard’s headstones date back to the early 1800s.

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Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA -

This graveyard, which serves as the final resting place of Hollywood legends like Rudolph Valentino and Douglas Fairbanks, remained abandoned for decades until it was revitalized in the 1990s.

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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA -

This 1849 cemetery served as a location for the Ramones' music video ‘Pet Sematary.’

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Key West Cemetery, Key West, FL -

This historic cemetery was established in 1847 after a hurricane the year before washed away the island’s old cemetery, scattering the bodies in a nearby forest. For this reason, some of the headstones at the cemetery are older than the actual cemetery.

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Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, GA -

Its depiction in the 1997 film ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ earned this 1846 graveyard its fame.

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Granary Burying Ground, Boston, MA -

Founded in 1660, the third-oldest cemetery in Boston is the final resting place for notable Revolutionary War patriots, including Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine.

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Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA -

Arlington is beyond any doubt the most famous burial ground in the US. The final resting place for American soldiers since the Civil War, the cemetery is also the final resting place of President John F. Kennedy, whose grave is marked with the "eternal flame."

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Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA -

Designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed New York City’s Central Park, this graveyard is the burial ground for many notable Californians.

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Dawson Cemetery, Cimarron, NM -

This cemetery is closely linked to Dawson’s tragic history. After two separate coal mining disasters in 1913 and 1923, this graveyard serves as the resting place for the 384 victims.

See also: The extravagant eternal homes of historical figures

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