Thursday, April 2, 2009

Great Graveyards





What can I say? I like graveyards. I find them endlessly fascinating. So I was thrilled to discover this list of ten "must-see" cemeteries. I've already visited five of them, and I'm dying to see more (ha), particularly London's Highgate Cemetery (shown above). Surprisingly, number seven on the list is near my new home in Brooklyn! So the next time the weather is nice, I think I'll pack a picnic and have lunch with some Roosevelts.

13 comments:

Dakota Blue said...

What's with czech republic and graves? you see them on every freakin' street! It can really baffle a person that their parents are from this crazy place of dead people. Besides, they forgot to mention the one in mexico. Now that was cool. It was all colorful and it had the person's perfessions designed on it. (yes, DESIGNED.) so, that's nice. Maybe half the people on the streets of czechoslavakia are zombies...

Delaney said...

Hi! You know how in Kiki Strike, they have that "How to Experience the Real New York"? I'm going there on spring break, and would like to know how to find the tunnel on 5 Doyers Street. Is it open to the public? Where at the address is it? Thanks!

SAMEANONYMOUS said...

#1 rocks and the rest of them are deadly-(pun intended) cool

Air is Where said...

i want to see the one with walt disney and the old jewish cemetary. not sure which one i want to be buried in though.

Anonymous said...

thats sooo cool... the cemetery my popop is buried in is really cool to... theres an asian section thats really elaborate

liltomboyblue said...

That's cool, but they left out the one in Savvanah, Georgia! It's amazing, I have been there. It's featured in 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'.

Kirsten: I went to Asheville!

Undiscovered Universe said...

Delaney: I'm going to NY for spring break 2!

Irregular Kiki said...

The cemetery that I am dying to visit is the Marble Cemetery. I'd love to go there and into one of the vaults, and discover......The Shadow City!
But really, I seriously want to visit the Marble Cemetery, I'm really interested in it.

Kitty said...

OMG!! I SAW THE HIGHGATE CEMETERY!! But I didn't go in ;-; I REGRET THAT!!!

Lara said...

I walked through the nearest cemetery to me the other day. It was sad, because its falling apart, some of the gravestones have fallen over and everything is covered with ivy...nobodys looking after it.

Anonymous said...

I love that my fav grave yard is the one in phantom of the opera 2004!

Charstar ;-) said...

I live across the streat from a grave yard I can walk ot it its so close :) its a VARRY VARRY old one the oldest peoson barryd there was in the 1880.
some thing wearid is that one of my friends when i was in school
(home schoold now) It had the same last name my friend had (wearid hu)
(I don't see my friend any more cause I moved away to our new house
(aka THE HOUSE ACROSS THE GRAVE YARD OHHHHH)

Nico said...

SWEET!!! I want to go to NY so bad but................ *sigh*