Graves

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

This tranquil churchyard in the heart of England’s mining country whispers tales of both triumph and tragedy.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

This cemetery is all that remains of a school for "wayward" girls.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This Sri Lankan cemetery is the final resting place of sci-fi legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.