CEMETERY GHOST

LIST OF CEMETERIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Argentina
La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Perón, Juan Manuel Fangio, and many other Argentine figures
La Chacarita Cemetery (or "National Cemetery"), Buenos Aires - burial site of Juan Peron (until 2006), Carlos Gardel and many other notables.
Flores Cemetery, Buenos Aires

Australia
Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - Proper name 'The Necropolis, Rookwood" at over 2.8 km², reputedly the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere if not the world, first used in 1867. More than 1,000,000 interments.
Waverley Cemetery, (Sydney) - opened in 1877. Dramatic location on picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures such as writer Henry Lawson. 50,000 allotments.
Karrakatta Cemetery, (Perth) - opened in 1899 north of the Swan River and closest to the Perth city centre. For people buried in Karrakatta Cemetery, see Category Buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.
Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - Proper name "The Brisbane General Cemetery" the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery opened in 1875, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists. Resting place of author Steele Rudd.
Island of the dead - Port Arthur, Tasmania - early convict graves, part of the old goal and convict reform settlement.
Fremantle Cemetery, (Perth) - opened 1898 south of the Swan River and city of Perth - see Category:Buried in Fremantle Cemetery
Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide - opened in 1936 during South Australia's centenary year.

Austria
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros wrote "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" for its centennial in 1974.
Kapuzinergruft, Vienna - Final resting place of over 140 members of the House of Habsburg

Azerbaijan
Old Jugha, Julfa - Historically considered to have the largest number of Khachkars, carved memorial stones. It is the center of a controversy about Khachkar destruction.

Belgium
Schoonselhof Cemetery in Antwerp
Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels
Laeken Cemetery in Brussels
Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres

Brazil
Cemitério da Consolação, São Paulo - writer Mário de Andrade, Monteiro Lobato, painter Tarsila do Amaral, former Brazil's president Campos Sales
Cemitério do Morumbi, São Paulo - singer Elis Regina, F1 racer Ayrton Senna, actor and comedian Ronald Golias
Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. Santos Dumont, inventor of the airplane; Singer/Actress Carmen Miranda, composer Tom Jobim.

Canada

Manitoba
St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Burial site of Louis Riel. Oldest graveyard in Western Canada.

Newfoundland
Church of England Cemetery, St. John's.

Nova Scotia
Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, amongst others.
Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS Titanic cemetery.
Mount Herman Cemetery , Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax

New Brunswick
Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John. Final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley.

Quebec
Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, (Formerly Sainte-Foy) Quebec City. Interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others.
Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montreal. Some of the notables buried here include Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harvey, Pierre Laporte.
Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. Final resting place for Sui Sin Far, Anna Leonowens, John Abbott, Mordecai Richler, Sir Arthur Currie, Molson family members, and others.
Mount Hermon Cemetery, (Formerly Sillery), Quebec City, Empress of Ireland Memorial. G.R. Renfrew, Peter Simons, Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière,
Irish Cemetery at Grosse-Ile, Grosse Ile, Quebec. Over 6000 immigrants (mostly Irish) who died while quarantined during the Great Famine of 1847. Largest Irish cemetery outside of Ireland.

Ontario
Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The burial site includes Sir Robert Borden, Tommy Douglas, Gen. Andrew McNaughton
Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. Interments here include Yousuf Karsh, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Aurel Joliat.
Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston. Final resting place of Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Alexander Campbell
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Those interred here include Timothy Eaton, Frederick Banting, Glenn Gould, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and others.
Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto. The burial site for Margaret Anglin, Morley Callaghan, and King Clancy, amongst others.
Necropolis Cemetery, in Toronto. (Toronto Necropolis). The burial site of William Lyon Mackenzie, Ned Hanlon, and others. Monument to Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews.
Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Toronto. Includes the interment of Sir Henry Pellatt.
Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto. The final resting place of Harold Ballard, Conn Smythe, John Swietlinski, amongst others.
York Cemetery, in Toronto. The burial site of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and her husband Captain Kolikovsky, Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton and others.

British Columbia
Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. Final resting place of Sir James Douglas, Emily Carr, Billy Barker and Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the "Hanging Judge".
Mountain View Cemetery. The oldest cemetery in the City of Vancouver, it is the resting place of 145,000 people, including numerous notable figures in the city's history.

Alberta
Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary. Final resting place of Owen Hart, a Professional wrestler and member of the prestigious Hart wrestling family, Dorothy Joudrie, Archibald Wilder, and Everett Johnson.

Chile
Cementerio General de Chile in Santiago, Chile, is the burial place for all but one of Chile's deceased Presidents including Salvador Allende plus other notables such as singers Víctor Jara and Violeta Parra.

People's Republic of China
Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain
Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao
Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia
Mawangdui at Changsha, Hunan
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an
Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing
Thirteen Imperial Mausoleums of Ming Dynasty Emperors, Beijing
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Nanjing
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing
Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng near Wuhan in Hubei province - probably best preserved funeral architecture of the Warring States Period
Tomb at Yinque at Linyi County, Shandong province
Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province

Hong Kong
Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong
Gallant Garden is the cemetery for civil and public servants who died in service
Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery - The early western cemetery in the early colonial era of Hong Kong
Stanley Military Cemetery - Not only one of the major military cemeteries of Hong Kong, but also one of the last battlefields of Hong Kong Defence, 1941
Sai Wan War Cemetery - Most of the WWII of Hong Kong and East Asia Stage war deads are buried there

Macau
Old Protestant Cemetery

Croatia
Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb - the biggest cemetery in Croatia, one of the most beautiful and oldest in Europe
Municipal Cemetery in Varazdin

Czech Republic
Sedlec ossuary - Kutná Hora
Old Jewish Cemetery - Prague
Olsany Cemetery, Prague - the biggest graveyard in the Czech republic
Vysehrad cemetery, Prague - the Czech Republic's most important cemetery, it is the burial site for Antonín Dvorák, Alfons Mucha and Bedrich Smetana, amongst others.

Cuba
Cementerio Santa Ifigenia - Bacardi family, José Marti and many others

Denmark
Roskilde Cathedral in the city of Roskilde is the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen is the burial site for Danish notables such as Hans Christian Andersen and Niels Bohr as well as for several African-American jazz musicians.

Ecuador
Cementerio General de Guayaquil

Egypt
Great Pyramid of Giza
Saqqara
Valley of the Kings
Cairo City of the Dead

Estonia
Hiiu-Rahu cemetery, Tallinn
Jewish cemetery, Tallinn
Liiva cemetery, Tallinn
Metsakalmistu cemetery, Tallinn
Pauluse cemetery, Tartu
Pirita cemetery, Tallinn
Puiestee cemetery, Tartu
Pärnamäe cemetery, Tallinn
Raadi cemetery, Tartu
Rahumäe cemetery, Tallinn
Rahumäe cemetery, Tartu
Siselinna cemetery, Tallinn

Finland
Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki

France
Cimetière de Bagneux, Paris - burial place for Jean Vigo, Gribouille, Alfred Jarry and others.
Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris.
Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, burial place for Edith Wharton, Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and others.
Grand Jas Cemetery, Cannes - buried here are Lily Pons, Peter Carl Fabergé, Martine Carol and other celebrities
Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon
Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Edgar Degas, Heinrich Heine, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers. Émile Zola was initially buried here, but his remains were later moved to the Panthéon. His gravestone can still be seen here, however.
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Man Ray. Pierre Laval and Porfirio Diaz are also buried here.
Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery
Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Émile Zola.
Cimetière de Pantin in Paris is the burial site of the singer Damia, and the Cancan dancer, known as La Goulue, and other notables.
Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.
Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of famous persons such as Colette, Baron Georges Haussmann, Eugène Delacroix, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Molière, Gertrude Stein, Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, and Frédéric Chopin. Many French Holocaust victims are buried there.
Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.
Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where, on 24 May 1430, Joan of Arc was told to recant or face summary execution. Some of those buried here are the painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen.
Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as Arthur Honegger, Marcel Carné, Maurice Utrillo and others.

Foreign cemeteries
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery: Ivan Bunin, Rudolph Nureyev, Felix Yusupov, Andrei Tarkovsky
World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery

Germany

Bavaria (Bayern)
Bayreuth, Bayreuth Friedhof Burial site of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt and Jean Paul amongst others
Munich, Nordfriedhof Burial site of Peter Igelhoff and Paul Troost
Munich, Ostfriedhof. Burial site of Friedrich Hollaender, Rudolf Moshammer, Leni Riefenstahl and Barbara Valentin.
Munich, Südlichen Friedhof zu München. Burial site of Leo von Klenze and Karl Spitzweg.
Munich, Westfriedhof. Burial site of Alexandra, Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari and Ernst Röhm.
Nuremberg, Johanniskirchhof

Berlin
Berlin - Charlottenburg, Friedhof Heerstraße, Burial site of Leo Blech, Karl Bonhoeffer, Horst Buchholz, Tilla Durieux, George Grosz, Maximilian Harden, Hilde Hildebrand, Joachim Ringelnatz and Grethe Weiser.(See de:Friedhof Heerstraße)
Berlin - Charlottenburg, British War Cemetery, Heerstraße.(See de:Britischer Friedhof an der Heerstraße)
Berlin - Kreuzberg, Holy Trinity Cemetery I Burial site of Fanny Hensel Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Rahel Varnhagen (See: (de:Friedhöfe vor dem Halleschen Tor) also Holy Trinity Cemetery II Burial site of Martin Gropius, Adolph von Menzel and Theodor Mommsen. (See de:Friedhöfe an der Bergmannstraße)
Berlin - Kreuzberg, Jersusalem und Neue Kirche III Burial site of Adelbert von Chamisso and E.T.A. Hoffmann (See: de:Friedhöfe vor dem Halleschen Tor) , also Friedhof IV der Gemeinde Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche Burial site of Rikard Nordraak. (See: de:Friedhof IV der Gemeinde Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche)
Berlin - Kreuzberg, Luisenstädtischer Friedhof Burial site of Gustav Stresemann. (See de:Luisenstädtischer Friedhof)
Berlin - Lichtenberg, Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde. Burial site of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht.
Berlin - Mitte, Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof. Burial site of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, John Heartfield and Johannes Rau. (See de:Friedhof der Dorotheenstädtischen und Friedrichswerderschen Gemeinden)
Berlin - Schöneberg, Städtischer Friedhof III. Burial site of Marlene Dietrich and Helmut Newton.
Berlin - Schöneberg, Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin. Burial site of the Brothers Grimm. (See de:Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin)
Berlin - Weißensee, Weißensee Cemetery. The largest old Jewish cemetery in Europe.
Berlin - Wilmersdorf, Friedhof Schmargendorf. Burial site of Max Pechstein.
Berlin - Zehlendorf, Städtischer Friedhof Berlin-Zehlendorf. Burial site of Heinrich George.
Berlin - Zehlendorf, St Annen Friedhof, Dahlem Dorf. Burial site of Rudi Dutschke.
Berlin - Zehlendorf, Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Hüttenweg. Burial site of Gottfried Benn, Karl Hofer, Bernd Rosemeyer and Werner Sombart.
Berlin - Zehlendorf, Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf, Potsdamer Chaussee. Burial site of Willy Brandt, La Jana, Helmut Käutner, Julius Leber, Hildegard Knef, Erich Mühsam, Ernst Reuter and Renée Sintenis.
Note: Some of these redlinks have different names. See first: de:Kategorie:Friedhof in Berlin and de:Berliner Bestattungswesen

Brandenburg
Stahnsdorf near Berlin, Südwest-Kirchhof Stahnsdorf (Stahnsdorf Southwest Cemetery). Burial site of Rudolf Breitscheid, Lovis Corinth, Jean Kurt Forest, Joachim Gottschalk, Engelbert Humperdinck, Gustav Langenscheidt and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.

Hamburg
Hamburg, Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf (Ohlsdorf Main Cemetery), with 4.05 km² largest cemetery on Earth. 1.280000 graves.
Hamburg, Hauptfriedhof Öjendorf (Öjendorf Main Cemetery)
Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Altona (Altona Jewish Cemetery)
Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Ohlsdorf (Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery)
Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Ottensen (Ottensen Jewish Cemetery)

North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Cologne, Melaten

Schleswig-Holstein
Elmshorn, Jüdischer Friedhof (Elmshorn Jewish Cemetery)
Lübeck, Burgtor-Friedhof
Rendsburg, Garnisonsfriedhof

Greece
Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Athens
Proto Nekrotafio (First Cemetery of Athens) - Cemetery in Central Athens, including the graves of many famous Greek politicians and celebrities like Melina Mercouri, Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou, George Seferis, Manos Hadjidakis.
Anastaseos tou Kyriou (Resurrection of Lord) - The biggest public cemetery of Greece. Located east of Thessaloniki.
Akrotiri, Chania, Crete - Venizelos' tombs. Burial site of the politician Eleftherios Venizelos.
Vergina, Pella - (Macedonian Tombs). Tomb of the ancient Macedonian King, Phillip II of Macedon.
Tatoy Royal Cemetery - Athens.
Mikra British Honorary Cemetery - Located in the municipality of Kalamaria, in Thessaloniki. The Memorial commemorates 478 nurses, officers and men of the Commonwealth forces who died when troop transports and hospital ships were lost in the Mediterranean, and who have no grave but the sea.
Skorpios Island, Ionian Sea - Burial site of 20th century's shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his daughter Christina Onassis.

Hungary
The most famous of them is Kerepesi Cemetery, one of the biggest national pantheons in Europe, where several Hungarian notables are buried in ornate monuments. The second most significant may be Farkasréti Cemetery, including the graves of further illustrious people.

The largest cemetery in Budapest (and one of the largest ones in Europe) is Új köztemeto (New Public Cemetery); it comprises an area of about 2.07 km².

Other cemeteries in Budapest:

Angeli Street Cemetery
Budafoki Cemetery
Cinkotai Cemetery
Csepeli Cemetery
Csörsz Street Cemetery (Orthodox Jewish cemetery, out of use since 1961)
Farkasréti Cemetery
Gránátos Street Cemetery (Orthodox Jewish cemetery)
Kerepesi Cemetery (Kerepesi temeto; official name: Fiumei úti sírkert)
Kispesti Cemetery
Kozma Street Jewish Cemetery (the biggest Jewish cemetery in Hungary, with the monument of 600,000 Jewish martyrs)
New Public Cemetery (Új köztemeto; Rákoskeresztúri sírkert)
Óbudai Cemetery
Pestszenterzsébeti Cemetery
Pestszentlorinci Cemetery
Rákospalotai Cemetery
Tamás Street Urn Cemetery
Újpest, Megyeri Cemetery

Indonesia
Imogiri - founded by Sultan Agung
Kalibata Cemetery

Iran
Astan-e Quds-e Razavi in Mashhad
Bam cemetery in Bam
Behesht-e Fazl in Neyshabur (Where Fazlinb-e shazan-e Neyshaburi's shrine is placed)
Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran - largest Iranian cemetery
Beheshtieh in Tehran - Jewish cemetery
Gurestan Bastani, Bushehr (the ancient cemetery, Bushehr)
Maghbarat ol-Shoara (the Poets’ cemetery in Tabriz)
Vadi-e Rahmat, Tabriz Cemetery
Naqsh-e Rustam (Achaemenid Royal Cemetery)
Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery, Rayy, Tehran
Shah Cheragh, Shiraz

Iraq
Wadi-us-Salaam, Najaf - largest Islamic cemetery
Shuneziya, Baghdad - Burial place of saints and many pious personalities.

Republic of Ireland
Carrowmore, County Sligo
Deansgrange, County Dublin
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
Huguenot Cemetery, Dublin
Newgrange, County Meath
St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton, Dublin

Israel
Mount Herzl, the official cemetery for the leaders of Israel, where many Prime Ministers of Israel and President of Israel are buried. Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin are among those who are buried here.
Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem - in almost continual use from First Temple times until today. Oskar Schindler and Menachem Begin buried here.
Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem.
Kinnereth Cemetery, a small cemetery on the Sea of Galilee shore. The poets Rachel and Neomi Shemer are buried here.

Italy
Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Donatello and many members of the Medici family;
Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Galileo, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Gioacchino Rossini and many other notables;
'English' Cemetery, Florence - burial site for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Trollope, Theodore Parker and others;
Porte Sante, Florence - resting place of Carlo Collodi and many others;
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice - resting place of Titian, Claudio Monteverdi and the heart of Antonio Canova;
Campo di Verano cemetery, Rome - Largest cemetery in Rome
Cimitero Monumentale in Milan is a very large cemetery that includes the Famedio (Temple of Fame) where Giuseppe Verdi, Vladimir Horowitz, Alessandro Manzoni, Arturo Toscanini, and others are interred;
Camposanto, Pisa
Catacombs of Rome
Mausoleum of Theodoric
Protestant Cemetery, Rome - resting place of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats;
San Michele, Venice - Venice's main cemetery and resting place of Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev;
Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno, Genoa--famous for its sepulchral sculpture and architecture.

Japan
Foreign cemeteries in Japan The Tokyo foreign cemetery is a section of the Aoyama Reien municipal cemetery in Aoyama, Tokyo. It is currently (2005) under threat from the city's bureaucracy which is planning to make a park on the site and has posted Kanpo notices in front of endangered graves for which fees have not been paid by families of the deceased. These notices expire at the end of September 2005 - after which the graves may be removed and reburied elsewhere.

Nagasaki has three main international cemeteries: 1) Inasa International Cemetery, which is the oldest foreign cemetery in Japan and consists of separate plots for Chinese, Dutch and Russian people; 2) Oura International Cemetery, which was established in the early 1860's near the site of the Nagasaki Foreign Settlement and served the foreign community until being closed in 1888; and 3) Sakamoto International Cemetery, which has some 440 graves including that of Scottish merchant Thomas Blake Glover.

The Kobe cemetery is on Mount Futatabi in a pleasant woodland location and has the graves of many long-term residents, including Alexander Cameron Sim.

The Yokohama cemetery, located in Naka ward, includes among many others the grave of Charles Lennox Richardson, murdered in the Namamugi Incident in September 1862, John Wilson, and that of Charles Wirgman. The French military advisors of the Boshin War, François Bouffier, Jean Marlin, and Auguste Pradier are also buried there.

On the weekends of the Spring, Summer and Fall (from noon to 4:00 p.m.), the cemetery is opened up to the public for a small donation to help with the upkeep of the premises. Visitors will get a small pamphlet showing graves of interest, and they can also view the museum at the site. These events are organized by the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery Foundation.

The Hakodate cemetery includes the grave of a mariner from the fleet of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry.

Kenya
Wajee Nature Park, Nyeri, resting place of Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Scouting movement.

Lithuania
Rasos Cemetery, Vilnius

Malaysia
Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (250,000 m²) Chinese cemetery outside China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.
Taman Selatan
Tanjung Kupang Memorial
Taiping War Cemetery
Labuan War Cemetery

Mexico
Panteón de Dolores, Mexico City
Panteón Español, Mexico City
Panteón Francés, Mexico City
Panteón de Belén, Guadalajara, Jalisco
Panteón del Carmen, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Panteón de Dolores, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Parque funeral Guadalupe, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Panteones Municipales de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Panteón del Roble, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Panteón Valle de Paz, Monterrey, Nuevo León
Panteón Tepeyac, Monterrey, Nuevo León

Netherlands
Westgaarde, Amsterdam
Zorgvlied, Amsterdam
Westerkerk, Amsterdam - Resting place of Rembrandt van Rijn
Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam - Resting place of Joost van den Vondel, Michiel de Ruyter
Nieuwe Kerk, Delft - Resting place of William I of Orange, most members of House of Orange
Oude Kerk, Delft - Resting place of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Maarten Tromp, Johannes Vermeer
Holten Canadian War Cemetery
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery

New Zealand
Northern Cemetery (Dunedin) - final resting place of Thomas Bracken, author of New Zealand's national anthem, God Defend New Zealand.

Pakistan
Miani Sahib Qabaristan (Lahore) - Hundreds of years old, it is the largest cemetery in Lahore, contains graves of saints and pious people.
Makli Hill (Thatta) - One of the largest cemeteries in the world, contains hundreds of graves of saints, pious people, local rulers and kings.

Peru
Presbitero Maestro is one of the cemeteries in the capital city of Peru, Lima. The architectural styles of the mausoleums found within are broad ranging. It houses the remains of several important political, military and literary figures. Most prominent of all the mausoleums is the Panteón de los Próceres where heroes of the War of the Pacific (1879-1884) are buried.

El Panteón de los PróceresBy 1786, the Spanish Viceroy Jose Abascal recommended the construction of a general cemetery in Lima. This wasn't finished until 1807, thanks to the effort of the Priest Matías Maestro. This multifaceted man, born in Vitoria (Spain)in 1776, came to Peru by the end of the 18th century to start a new business. In 1793, he became a Catholic Priest and since then he dedicated to “renew” the churches and altarpieces with the latest fashion style: Neoclassicism. He became General Director of Lima’s Public Beneficence Society in 1826 and died on January 7th of 1835.

Poland
Gliwice - New Jewish Cemetery (Szobiszowice) (pol. Nowy Cmentarz Zydowski),
Kraków - Rakowice Cemetery,
Kraków - Skalka,the "National Pantheon",
Kraków - Wawel Cathedral, burial place for Polish kings, bishops of Kraków,poets and national heroes,
Szczecin - Central Cemetery, - one of the largest cemeteries in Europe,
Warsaw - Powazki Cemetery, among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieslowski and Nobel Prize winning author Wladyslaw Reymont,
Wroclaw - Old Jewish Cemetery - The most famous person buried here is Ferdinand Lassalle, the founder of German Socialist Party.

Portugal
Church of Santa Engrácia - the National Pantheon, burial place of Amália Rodrigues, Vasco da Gama among others.

Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico National Cemetery in Bayamón
Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan, bural place of authors Pedro Salinas, Muna Lee and singer Tony Croatto

Romania
Bellu cemetery, Bucharest
Merry Cemetery, Sapânta (Maramures)
Central Cemetery, Cluj-Napoca

Russia
Novodevichy Cemetery at the New Maidens' Convent, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, the writers Nikolai Gogol and Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Vagankovskoye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia is the burial site for Inga Artamonova, Vladimir Vysotsky, Sergei Yesenin, and others.
Donskoe Cemetery in Moscow is an old necropolis next to the Donskoy Monastery.
Rogozhskoye cemetery in Moscow is the center of Old Believer community in Russia and the world.
Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia. Among those interred here is author Fyodor Dostoevsky, scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Persian Shiite Cemetery, St. Petersburg
Peter and Paul Fortress, Petersburg - all Russian Tsars since Peter the Great are buried in the cathedral.
Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, St Petersburg - burial ground for the victims of the Siege of Leningrad and probably the largest cemetery in the world by the number of people interred.
Komarovo Cemetery, Komarovo, Saint Petersburg - burial place of Saint Petersburg scientific and cultural intelligentsia such as Anna Akhmatova
Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) should be distinguished from the eponymous cemetery in Moscow.
Lenin's Mausoleum - the final resting place of Vladimir Lenin, with his embalmed body on public display.
Kremlin Wall Necropolis - part of the Kremlin Wall where Soviet governments buried many prominent Communist figures.
Pantheon, Moscow - a project in the 1950s to construct a monumental memorial tomb in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Slovakia
Slavín monumental memorial and cemetery of fallen Soviet Army soldiers in Bratislava
National Cemetery in Martin
Cemeteries of Villages in Eastern Slovakia

Slovenia
Žale, Ljubljana

Serbia
Novo Groblje in Belgrade - burial ground of many famous Serbs

South Korea
Seoul National Cemetery
Daejeon National Cemetery

Spain
Cementerio de la Almudena - Madrid's largest cemetery
El Escorial - burial place for the monarchs of Spain
Cementerio de San Fernando - Sevilla's cemetery
Panteón de Hombres Ilustres, in Madrid
Royal Chapel of Granada, where the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand with Joanna of Castile "La Loca" and Philip the Handsome lie.
Valle de los Caídos. Francisco Franco, Primo de Rivera, and more than 30.000 soldiers of both factions deceased in the Spanish Civil War lay there.

Saudi Arabia
Baqi Cemetery, Medina
Ma'ala Cemetery, Mecca
Both these cemeteries are outstanding religiously historical burial grounds. Eminent early Islamic figures are buried at both these sites as well as other places. However, these two cemeteries are held in esteem. Many people even today desire these sites to be their final journey.

Sweden
Riddarholmskyrkan, Stockholm
Norra begravningsplatsen, established in 1827 in northern Stockholm, is the burial site for a number of Swedish notables including Alfred Nobel, Ingrid Bergman and Ulrich Salchow.
Skogskyrkogården, a relatively new cemetery opened in 1920 in southern Stockholm, has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amongst others, the cemetery contains the graves of actress Greta Garbo.
Uppsala Cathedral is the burial site for several Swedish kings and queens from the 16th and 17th century, as well as Carolus Linnaeus and Emanuel Swedenborg. The nearby Old Graveyard houses the grave of Dag Hammarskjöld.

Switzerland
Basel
Friedhof Hörnli
Berne
Bremgartenfriedhof: Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin.
Schosshaldenfriedhof: Paul Klee.
Friedhof Bümpliz (with sculptures by Schang Hutter)
Jüdischer Friedhof Bern: Max Horkheimer.
Geneva
Cimetière des Rois
Kilchberg, Zurich: burial site for Thomas Mann, Katia Mann, Erika Mann, Golo Mann, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer)
Morcote
Cemetery Morcote: burial site for Alexander Moissi (1879-1935), Georges Baklanoff (1882-1938), Georg Kaiser (1878-1945), Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932).
Zurich
Friedhof Fluntern: burial site for Elias Canetti, Kurt Früh, Therese Giehse, Fritz Hug, James Joyce, Karl Moser, Lavoslav Ružicka, Paul Scherrer, Emil Oprecht
Privatfriedhof Hohe Promenade: Grabstädte Arnold Escher von der Linth.
Friedhof Manegg: Walter Matthias Diggelmann, Alfred Escher, Friedrich Glauser, Kurt Gloor, Othmar Schoeck.
Friedhof Nordheim: Albin Zollinger.
Friedhof Rehalp: Heinrich Federer.
Friedhof Sihlfeld: Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli, Karl Culmann, Gustav Gull, Rudolf Koller, Johanna Spyri, August Bebel, Henri Dunant, Gottfried Keller.

Syria
Bab-e-Sagheer Cemetery (Damascus) - One of the most famous cemeteries in the Muslim world, it contains the resting places of the Wives of Prophet R.A, Companions of the Prophet Muhammad SAW, saints and other pious personalities.

Republic of China (Taiwan)
Chin Pao San
Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery
Tamsui Foreign Cemetery

Turkey

Ankara
Cebeci Asri Cemetery: The cemetery for high ranked public and military officials in Ankara
Turkish State Cemetery: Cemetery in Ankara reserved for presidents, prime ministers and high ranked military officials fought at the Turkish War of Independence

Gallipoli
Beach Cemetery, Anzac: Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915

Istanbul
Karacaahmet Cemetery: 400 year-old cemetery in Üsküdar, Istanbul
Zincirlikuyu Cemetery : One of the greatest cemeteries in Istanbul

Ukraine
Lychakivskiy Cemetery, Lviv - The burial site for Polish and Ukrainian notables including writer Maria Konopnicka and the poet, Ivan Franko.

United Kingdom
Abney Park, Stoke Newington, London - Opened in 1840, it is one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries and was the first wholly non-denominational cemetery in Europe; architecture by William Hosking, arboretum by Loddiges, design concept by George Collison based partly on the 'New World' principles and designs of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Although open to all, it became particularly noted as the main C19th burial place of English nonconformist ministers, scholars and missionaries as Bunhill Fields became full
Aldershot Military Cemetery, first enclosed in 1856, it is the final resting place Military personal of all ranks, or ex military personnel and for internment of wives and families, and for some civilians who have spent their life with the army.
Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol - established 1837, first burial 1839
Ballyoan Cemetery, County Londonderry
Belfast City Cemetery, Belfast
Brompton Cemetery- Opened in 1840, it is one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries and is the final resting place for a number of prominent persons including Samuel Cunard, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sir Charles Fremantle amongst others.
Brookwood Cemetery - Brookwood, Woking,Surrey - resting place for over 240,000 people.
Bunhill Fields, London, England - note as the main late C17th, C18th and early C19th burial place of nonconformist ministers, scholars, and literary figures including John Bunyan, William Blake, Isaac Watts and Daniel Defoe
Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland - Resting place of Adam Smith, regarded as the founder of modern economics
Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England
Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England
Highgate Cemetery, London, is notable for its Egyptian Avenue and Lebanon Circle. The tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here. Highgate is also the final resting place of Douglas Adams, Jacob Bronowski, Charles Cruft, George Eliot, Michael Faraday, William Friese-Greene, Stella Gibbons,Sheila Gish, Radclyffe Hall, Leslie Hutchinson, Sidney Nolan, prolific actor Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Herbert Spencer, Feliks Topolski and Max Wall.
Iona Abbey, last resting place of many kings of Scotland, and Labour leader John Smith
Kensal Green Cemetery, London, oldest English cemetery of its type still in operation, many elaborate Victorian mausoleums, including those of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope.
Milltown Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery at Kensal Green in London is the final resting place for a number of notables including Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Sax Rohmer and Krystyna Skarbek.
St Botolph Aldersgate, London
St Margarets, London
St Paul's Cathedral, London
Victoria Gate, Hyde Park
Westminster Abbey, London, also the final resting place of prolific stage and screen actor Lord Laurence Olivier
West Norwood Cemetery, one of London's Magnificent Seven, containing a record 65 listed monuments, and many notables including Sir Henry Bessemer, Dr William Marsden, Sir Hiram Maxim, Paul Julius Baron von Reuter
Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow, Scotland - Better known for its elaborate mausolea than celebrated cadavers.

United States of America

Alabama
Ahavas Chesed Cemetery, Mobile
Church Street Graveyard, Mobile
Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham - Bear Bryant, Eddie Kendricks, Sun Ra.
Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile
Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville
Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham - Louise Wooster
Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery - Hank Williams
Old Catholic Cemetery, Mobile
Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery, Mobile
Pine Hill Cemetery, Auburn

Arizona
Boothill Graveyard (Tombstone, Arizona) - Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury, and Tom McLaury.
Greenwood Memory Lawn (Phoenix, Arizona) - Walter Winchell.
Mesa Cemetery (Mesa, Arizona) - Waylon Jennings, and Ernesto Miranda.
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona (Phoenix, Arizona)
Paradise Memorial Gardens (Scottsdale, Arizona) - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
Pioneer & Military Memorial Park (Phoenix, Arizona) - Darrell Duppa, and King Woolsey.
Railroad Park (Willcox, Arizona) - Rex Allen and his horse, KoKo.
Wittmann Cemetery (Wittmann, Arizona)

Arkansas
Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock - known as Westminster Abbey of Arkansas;

California
Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles;
Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles;
Centerville Pioneer Cemetery, Fremont;
Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles;
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma is the burial site of William Randolph Hearst and other members of the Hearst family plus prominent citizens from the San Francisco area.
Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles.
El Camino Memorial Park, San Diego, California.
Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland - Final resting place of Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton.
Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City);
Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles - resting place for Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, Charles Laughton, Marty Feldman, Lee van Cleef, Telly Savalas, Liberace, Andy Gibb, Ricky Nelson, Bette Davis; Lucille Ball was originally interred here, but her remains were relocated to Jamestown, New York in 2002.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale - satirized in Evelyn Waugh's novel, The Loved One.
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego County, California.
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Los Altos - Final resting place of historian Iris Chang.
Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale - Edna Purviance, Chill Wills, Leo G. Carroll.
Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno.
Hills of Eternity Cemetery, Colma (known as the "City of the Dead"), burial place of Wyatt Earp;
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City - Al Jolson, Jack Benny and Milton Berle are buried here.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles - burial place of Mel Blanc, Rudolph Valentino, Bugsy Siegel, John Huston and the Chandler family of Los Angeles Times fame. Jayne Mansfield and Johnny Ramone have cenotaphs.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, (suburb of San Francisco) - Joe DiMaggio, California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, Bank of America founder, A.P. Giannini, musician Vince Guaraldi, and Abigail Folger.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City - Bing Crosby, Lawrence Welk, Sharon Tate, and Bela Lugosi are among the Holy Cross residents.
Home of Peace Cemetery, East Los Angeles - two of the Three Stooges were interred here;
Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood;
Los Angeles National Cemetery, West Los Angeles;
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles;
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, California is the burial site of Bessie Barriscale, Howard C. Hickman Ernie Nevers, and Diane Marie Antonia Varsi.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland - burial place of many important people from Californian (and American) history, including Elizabeth Short, Henry Kaiser, Julia Morgan, and 3 California governors.
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, Los Angeles;
Old City Cemetery (also known as Sacramento Historic Cemetery), Sacramento
Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Riverside County, California.
Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier - the largest cemetery in the world; resting place of Alvin Ailey, Jr., Haing S. Ngor and others.
San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles;
Stanford Mausoleum, Stanford University - Leland Stanford, Jr., and his parents Leland Stanford and Jane Stanford.
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood, Los Angeles;
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles - Marilyn Monroe, Frank Zappa, Billy Wilder, Natalie Wood;
Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica;

Connecticut
All Saint's Cemetery, North Haven;
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven;
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport;

District of Columbia
Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Holy Rood Cemetery, (on the grounds of Georgetown University), Washington, D.C.
Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.

Florida
Limona Cemetery, Brandon
Geneva Cemetery, Geneva is where Lewis Paine, a/k/a Lewis Thornton Powell, co-conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, is buried.
Ocoee Cemetery, Ocoee, FL

Georgia
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil;
Forest Lawn Cemetery, College Park - Final resting place of Whitman Mayo (actor who played Grady Wilson on the 1970s hit sitcom "Sanford and Son").
Lincoln Cemetery, Atlanta - Final resting place of Theodore "Tiger" Flowers (first African-American middle-weight boxing champion) and Rev. Hosea L. Williams (civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, Atlanta - Final resting place of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
Morehouse College, Atlanta - Final resting place of Dr. John Hope (President of Atlanta University) and wife, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (President of Morehouse College and mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.) and wife Sadie
Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, is where Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, Maynard H. Jackson (first black mayor of Atlanta), Bobby Jones (famed golfer) are buried. It is also known for its Victorian memorials to the Confederate cause and Confederate dead.
Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, is where numerous Georgia politicians, Confederate soldiers, University of Georgia (UGA) presidents and other notable UGA and Athens people are buried. Dean Rusk, former United States Secretary of State, and Ricky Wilson, guitarist in the rock band The B-52's, are buried in this cemetery.
Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, is where Allman Brothers Band guitarist Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are buried.
South-View Cemetery, Atlanta- Final resting place of Alonzo F. Herndon (Atlanta's first black millionaire), Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr. (mother and father of Martin Luther King, Jr.).
Westview Cemetery, Atlanta- Largest Cemetery in Southeastern United States. Final resting place of Henry W. Grady, Joel Chandler Harris (Author), Asa Candler(businessman) and Rev. Dr. Corneilus L. Henderson (United Methodist Church Minister/Bishop).
St. James Episcopal Cemetery, Marietta. The final resting place of both JonBenet Ramsey and Patsy Ramsey.

Hawaii
Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, Kane‘ohe, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official state veterans cemetery for those who served in the United States Armed Forces
Honolulu Catholic Cemetery, 839A South King Street, Honolulu. Notable persons interred here include the Roman Catholic bishops of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, as well as other famous persons such as Congressional delegate Robert Wilcox and Tahitian princess Eugénie Ninito Sumner.
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official United States Armed Forces cemetery comparable to Arlington National Cemetery, final resting place of Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and Gulf War dead. Also interred are the former Governors of Hawai‘i, influential American statesmen, Challenger disaster victims, among others.
Royal Masoleum at Mauna‘ala, Nu‘uanu, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official resting place of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties who reigned over the Kingdom of Hawai‘i
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, official resting place of those killed during the attack on Honolulu on 7 December 1941
Valley of the Temples, Kane‘ohe, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, home of the Byodo-In Temple and final resting place of Walter F. Dillingham. Former Philippines dictator President Ferdinand E. Marcos was also entombed here for a brief period, and his mausoleum was open to public visitation, until his body was returned to the Philippines where it remains until today on permanent display in a shrine specially built for him in the family's home province of Ilocos Norte.

Idaho
Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, Idaho - Burial place of Ernest Hemingway

Illinois
Chicago:
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery - a small, abandoned and reportedly haunted cemetery.
Graceland Cemetery - resting place of many members of Chicago's architectural, political, and industrial elite. Marshall Field, Cyrus McCormick, Carter Harrison, Potter Palmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, and Daniel Burnham are a few famous people buried here.
Mount Carmel Cemetery - the final resting place of several Bishops and Archbishops of Chicago, as well as organized crime figures such as Al Capone. The cemetery is located just west of Chicago in Hillside, Illinois.
Rosehill Cemetery - Julius Rosenwald, Oscar Meyer and others.
Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago - burial site for Enrico Fermi, Cap Anson, Jesse Owens and other notables.
Westlawn Cemetery - Jack Ruby, Abe Saperstein.
Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery, Alsip (near Chicago) - are the final resting places for many prominent African-American musicians and other personalities including Muddy Waters, Dinah Washington, Candy Jim Taylor, Ezzard Charles.
Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island. Listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994. Memorials created by significant artists, including Alexander Stirling Calder and Paul de Vigne.
Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington - resting place of former Vice President of the United States Adlai E. Stevenson I, former U.S. Ambassdor to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson II, and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis, among others.
Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield - resting place of former President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, and members of his family, as well as notable state of Illinois politicians.
Forest Park
German Waldheim Cemetery - Including several anarchists and socialists, including the Haymarket Martyrs, Emma Goldman, and others.
Jewish Waldheim Cemetery
Altenheim Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery
Showmen's Rest - circus performers
Concordia Cemetery
Virden Cemetery
Maplewood Cemetery Rantoul Holy Sepulchre Rantoul

Indiana
Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis - third largest cemetery in the United States (by area) and burial place of John Dillinger, Charles Fairbanks, Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, President Benjamin Harrison, James Whitcomb Riley, eleven Indiana Governors and fourteen Indiana Mayors.
Flanner and Buchanan, with 5 locations.
Heady Lane Cemetery, Fishers, Indiana-small cemetery which dates back to the early 1800s and has many members of the Heady family in it.
Park Cemetery, Fairmount - burial place of James Dean.
Beech Grove Cemetery Orange County, Indiana. Very Large, originally a Quaker Cemetery
Hunt Cemetery Orange County, Indiana

Iowa
Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque. One of the main cemeteries for people living in the Dubuque area. Originally it was the cemetery for the city's Protestants, but now it serves people of all faiths. A number of prominent Iowans are buried at the cemetery.
Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City- burial place of cartoonist, Jay Darling and of notable historical figures.
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Dubuque. This cemetery was originally the main burial location for the German Catholics of Dubuque. It is presently one of the two main Catholic cemeteries in Dubuque.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque. This cemetery, along with Mount Calvary Cemetery, is one of two main Catholic cemeteries in Dubuque.
Oakdale Cemetery, Davenport. Burial place of jazz legend, Bix Beiderbecke.
Oakland Cemetery, Centerville. This cemetery is the city owned cemetery for Centerville and is the burial place of former Governor of Iowa, Francis M. Drake.
Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City. This cemetery is home to the Black Angel, a burial monument surrounded by mystery and superstition.
Saint Joseph Cemetery, Earling.

Kansas
Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth. Founded in 1862. Burial place of Civil War and Indian War veterans, including eight Medal of Honor recipients, and the Fort and town's namesake, Brigadier General Henry Leavenworth.
Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan. The first cemetery in Manhattan, founded in 1860. It is the burial place of the fourth Governor of Kansas Nehemiah Green, Earl Woods, scientist Samuel Wendell Williston, anthropologist Solon Toothaker Kimball, and other local notables, including one Medal of Honor recipient.

Kentucky
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville - burial place of President Zachary Taylor.
Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum, Louisville - burial place of Colonel Sanders.
Moffitt Cemetery, Milton - a part of the film Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine, was shot on location here.
Lexington Cemetery, Lexington - established 1849. Burial place of Henry Clay, John Hunt Morgan, and John Cabell Breckinridge.

Louisiana
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans - grandest of the city's cemeteries, it is the burial site of notables such as Al Hirt, P.G.T. Beauregard and others. Because of the high water table (parts of the city are below sea level), graves in New Orleans cemeteries are above ground.
St. Louis Cemetery #1,#2,#3, New Orleans - burial place of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and many notable pirates and politicians.

Maine
First Parish Cemetery, York

Maryland
Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring - Mattie Stepanek,
Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore - final resting place of Samuel Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, Allen Dulles, Johns Hopkins, Benjamin Chew Howard, Joseph E. Johnston, Sidney Lanier, and many other important Marylanders
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland
Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore - final resting place of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, H. L. Mencken, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Mary Pickersgill, and many other important Marylanders.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick - Barbara Fritchie, Francis Scott Key
Old Saint Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore - Lewis Armistead, George Atzerodt, Samuel Chase, John Eager Howard, and many other important Marylanders.
United States Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis
Saint Mary's Cemetery, Rockville - F Scott Fitzgerald
Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore - James McHenry, Edgar Allan Poe, and many other important Marylanders.
U.S. National Cemetery

Massachusetts
Assonet Burying Ground, Assonet - burial site of John M. Deane, Civil War era Medal of Honor recipient.
Copp's Hill, Boston - 17th century
Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, garden cemetery, founded 1848.
Granary Burying Ground, Boston - 17th century
Greek Theology School of Boston, Iakovos, Archbishop of America.
Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline - Joseph P. Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (first resting place of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, later reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery)
King's Chapel, Boston - 17th century
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, first garden cemetery, picturesque landscaping; bird, plant, and tree sanctuary, featured in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford, founded late 1600s.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord - Henry David Thoreau,
Swampscott Cemetery, Swampscott - Burial site of Anthony M. Pizzi and Lydia T. Pizzi

Michigan
All Saints Cemetery, Waterford
Eden Cemetery, Mason, Michigan
Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, burial place of Lewis Cass, Zachariah Chandler, Coleman Young, and many other notable people, especially from the 19th century.
Evergreen Cemetery, Muskegon
Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta, Michigan
Great Lakes National Cemetery, Holly, Michigan
Guardian Angel Cemetery, Oakland Township
Hawley Cemetery, Mason, Michigan
Holy Cross Cemetery, Detroit
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield
Knapp Cemetery, Northville
Lakeside Cemetery, Muskegon, Michigan
Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, Michigan
Leek Cemetery, Mason, Michigan
Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Michigan
Maple Ridge Cemetery, Holt, Michigan
Michigan Memorial Cemetery, Flat Rock, Michigan
Mona View Cemetery, Muskegon Heights, Michigan
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Wyandotte
Mount Elliott Cemetery, Detroit
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit
Norton Cemetery, Norton Shores
Oakwood Cemetery, Muskegon
Pine Tree Cemetery, Corunna
Restlawn Cemetery, Muskegon, Michigan
Resurrection Cemetery, Clinton Township
Rural Hill Cemetery, Northville
St. Hedwig Cemetery, Dearborn Heights
St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Claybanks Township, Oceana County, Michigan
Thayer Cemetery, Northville
Waterford Cemetery, Northville
White Chapel Cemetery, Troy
William Ganong Cemetery, Westland
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit
Yerkes Cemetery, Northville
Pine Grove Cemetery, Millington. Final resting place of Kayla Rolland.

Minnesota
Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, burial place of Orville Freeman, Hubert Humphrey, Muriel Humphrey, Frank C. Mars, Karl Mueller, Floyd B. Olson, Rudy Perpich, John S. Pillsbury, Tiny Tim, Paul Wellstone, and many other prominent Minnesotans involved in it's founding and development.

Missouri
Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries, St. Louis, are the final resting place for William Burroughs, Sara Teasdale, Tennessee Williams, Kate Chopin, William Clark and others.

Nebraska
Prospect Hill Cemetery in North Omaha, Nebraska is the pioneer cemetery of Omaha, Nebraska, and is home to almost all of Omaha's founding fathers and mothers.

New Hampshire
Merrill Cemetery, Manchester - "Commodore" George Washington Morrison Nutt, promoted by P.T. Barnum.
Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester - Composer Horace Johnson, Governor Person Colby Cheney
Valley Cemetery, Manchester - 20-acre garden cemetery, founded 1841, final resting place for many New Hampshire congressmen, U.S. Senators, governors and Manchester's mayors.

New Jersey
Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, New Jersey - burial place of General George B. McClellan.

New York
Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands -- President Chester A. Arthur
Bayside Acacia Cemetery, Bayside, Queens
Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens;
Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven, Hawthorne - Babe Ruth, James Cagney, Anna Held, and others;
Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn
Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens, New York
Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn
Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn
Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale - Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Malcolm X, Aaliyah, and others;
Flushing Cemetery, Queens - Louis Armstrong
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo - Millard Fillmore, Rick James, Red Jacket
Forest Park Cemetery, Brunswick -- a famous "haunted" cemetery
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Westchester County, New York
Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery, Stillwater
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn - Samuel Morse, William March "Boss" Tweed, F.A.O. Schwarz and Jean-Michel Basquiat are among the burials here;
Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla - Ayn Rand, Tommy Dorsey, Lou Gehrig and other personalities are interred here
Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens
Machpelah Cemetery, Queens - Harry Houdini is interred here.
The Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp on Staten Island is the final resting place for several members of the Vanderbilt family.
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester - Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Lewis Henry Morgan, John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb, Frank E. Gannett, Hiram Sibley, Dr. Hartwell Carver, Myron Holley, George B. Selden, and many more.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens
New York Marble Cemetery, East Village, Manhattan is the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City.
Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, New York
Oakwood Cemetery, Troy - Samuel Wilson aka Uncle Sam
Saint Anthony's Lutheran Cemetery, Sanborn
Saint Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale - Interred here are Peter J. Brennan, Clarence Williams, Vitas Gerulaitis, and others.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving, Elizabeth Arden, Walter Chrysler, William Rockefeller, Samuel Gompers, Andrew Carnegie, are among notables buried here. Cemetery named by Washington Irving.
Trinity Churchyard, New York City - Astor family members; Blair family members
Witmer Road Cemetery, Niagara Falls, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx - Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, and Joseph Pulitzer are among those buried at this Woodlawn.
Union cemetery,Fort Edward final resting place ofKen Varney

North Carolina
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington.
New Bern National Cemetery
Raleigh National Cemetery
Salisbury National Cemetery
Wilmington National Cemetery

Ohio
Brock Cemetery, Greenville, Ohio - Annie Oakley
Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus - William Dennison, Jim Rhodes, Eddie Rickenbacker, and James Thurber.
Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland - burial site for President James A. Garfield, John D. Rockefeller, Eliot Ness and others.
Mansfield Catholic Cemetery, Mansfield, Ohio. Famous architect F.F. Schnitzer buried here.
Rose Hill Cemetery in Massillon, Ohio - Paul Brown
Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, Cincinnati, Ohio - largest non-profit private (second largest overall) cemetery in the United States (725+ acres) - Bob Braun, Salmon P. Chase, and Levi Coffin.
Union Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio - Moses Fleetwood Walker, Dave Thomas, Woody Hayes.
Woodland Cemetery, Dayton - gravesites of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Erma Bombeck and others.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo - gravesites of Samuel M. Jones, Edward Drummond Libbey, Morrison Waite and others.

Oklahoma
Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, OK - burial site for comedian Sam Kinison, controversial religious figure Susan Alamo, major league baseball player Carl Morton, religious figure Evelyn Roberts and musician Bob Wills.
Memorial Park Cemetery, Oklahoma City, OK - burial site for noted aviator Wiley Post
Ross Cemetery, Park Hill, OK - burial site for many noted Cherokee leaders including that of Cherokee chief John Ross.

Pennsylvania
Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville neighborhood) - Stephen Foster, Josh Gibson, and other notable personalities from the Pittsburgh area.
Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia - Burial site of Benjamin Franklin and four other signers of the Declaration of Independence.
East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Easton Cemetery, Easton-Burial site of George Taylor a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Fairview Cemetery, Pen Argyl - burial place of Jayne Mansfield.
Gettysburg National Cemetery, at the dedication of which in November, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address
Greenwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - August Wilson and other African-American notable personalities from the Pittsburgh area.
Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Squirrel Hill
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, garden cemetery founded 1836.
Mikveh Israel Cemetery, Philadelphia, oldest Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia; founded 1738.
Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia)
Mount Peace Cemetery [1], Philadelphia, also known as Odd Fellows Cemetery - George Lippard
Resurrection Cemetery, Wescosville--Cemetery for the Diocese of Allentown (Lehigh Valley).
St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburgh - Burial site of Andy Warhol
Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport--one of the largest in the Eastern United States

Rhode Island
North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island, oldest cemetery in Providence, many notable Rhode Islanders are buried here.
Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island, established in 1846 on a 60-acre tract of land bordering the Neck Road and extending easterly to the shore of the Seekonk River.

South Dakota
Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis
De Smet Cemetery, De Smet- burial place of members of the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Fort Meade National Cemetery, Sturgis
Hot Springs National Cemetery, Hot Springs
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood- burial place of Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, and Seth Bullock.
Saint John Cemetery, Beresford- burial place of United States Senator, William J. Bulow.

Tennessee
Nashville & area:

Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville has a "Music Row" where a number of country music personalities are interred, including Lefty Frizzell;
Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville - burial site for Johnny Cash, Sheb Wooley, and other country music stars;
Spring Hill Cemetery, Nashville - Roy Acuff, Hank Snow and other country music personalities;
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville - burial site for a number of country music personalities, including Otis Blackwell, Webb Pierce, and Johnny PayCheck;
Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville) - burials include a significant number of politicians and country music stars
Memphis & area:

Graceland, Memphis - burial place