This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

The Brigadier General was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a buzzer installed in his mausoleum, just in case he woke up.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

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

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Fenced off in a garden cemetery in Honduras lies the grave of the most notorious American filibuster.

A historic cemetery with unique artwork, a Civil War fort, and also happens to be the site of the Battle of Bladensburg.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

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

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

Originally a cemetery, this city park remains speckled with a handful of scattered gravestones.