199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die

Author: Loren Rhoads

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0316473790

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A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.

Graveyards of Chicago
Graveyards of Chicago

Author: Matt Hucke

Publisher: Lake Claremont Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780964242647

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Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.

Famous Graves to Visit Before
Famous Graves to Visit Before

Author: Cooper Steve

Publisher: New Holland Publishers

Published: 2015-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781742577364

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There are some living legends that are so big, that even dead, they're larger than life. Famous Graves to Visit B4 You Die showcases the final resting places of the famous, the infamous and the historic ... from Bogart and JFK, to Henry VIII and the Great Pyramid of Giza, they're all here in one great book. Compiled by former history teacher and author Steve Cooper, this eclectic list features potted biographies of each subject, the stories behind their often fascinating lives and spectacular deaths, and maps and images of their gravesites around the world. Covering the varying forms of the famous, whether a political powerhouse, an infamous troublemaker, or a film and TV legend, details of their famous lives, demise and final resting place is laid out for the reader to explore. Famous Graves to Visit B4 You Die is a great book for anyone with a curiosity for the more macabre aspects of the lives of the rich and famous. Historical buffs, pop culture aficionados, travelers young and old, Famous Graves to Visit B4 You Die is the book you've been looking for.

Spooky Cemeteries
Spooky Cemeteries

Author: Elsie Olson

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1098211952

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Tour some of the world's most famous haunted places in Spooky Cemeteries. Young readers will learn about the history, eerie occurrences, and public reactions to several spooky sites. The book also provides historic context and scientific facts that explain what is really going on. Dynamic photos and illustrative details will make readers feel as though they've just visited each hair-raising locale! Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The Speaking Stone
The Speaking Stone

Author: Michael Griffith

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781947602304

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The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, following curiosity and accident wherever they lead. The result is this fascinating collection, which narrates the lives of those he encountered on the way. Griffith lingers amidst the traces left behind--these are stories of race, feminism, art, and death, uncovered through obituaries, archival documents, and family legacies. Some essays focus on well-known figures like the feminist icon and freethinker Fanny Wright, but most chronicle the lives of lesser-known figures (a spiritual medium, a temperance advocate, the designers of caskets and hearses, the inventor of the glass-door oven) or of nearly unknown ones (a young heiress who died under mysterious circumstances, the daring sign-painters known as walldogs). The Speaking Stone examines what endures and what doesn't, reflecting on the vanity and poignancy of our attempts to leave monuments that last. Archival photos grace the pages of these thirteen essays that explore a larger, deeply tangled complex of ideas about place, history, self, and art.

Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here

Author: Loren Rhoads

Publisher:

Published: 2017-07-21

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780963679468

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Nearly every tourist destination has a graveyard. Over the past two and a half decades, Loren Rhoads has visited literally hundreds of graveyards. She's traveled to London's Highgate Cemetery, strolled through the Paris Catacombs, seen Hollywood Forever pulled back from the brink of destruction, studied Native American graveyards in Michigan, explored a circuit minister¿s churchyard on Maui, delved into the Protestant Cemetery of Rome and Zoshigaya Reien in Tokyo, and made stops in Venice, Boston, Los Angeles, Hiroshima, Yosemite, Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, and New Orleans along the way. Come along on her adventures in cemeteries around the world.

Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries
Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries

Author: Thomas H. Keels

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780738512297

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Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, is the final resting place of some of the nation's greatest citizens. The burial grounds of Christ Church hold the remains of Benjamin Franklin and six other signers of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia pioneered the development of the rural cemetery with the establishment of Laurel Hill, eternal home to Gettysburg hero George Gordon Meade and thirty-nine other Civil War-era generals. In Philadelphia's Jewish, Catholic, and African American burial grounds rest such notable figures as Rebecca Gratz, model for the Jewish heroine of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe; John Barry, Catholic father of the U.S. Navy; and Octavius Catto, an African American civil-rights leader of the nineteenth century. Finally, there are the vanished cemeteries, such as Monument, Lafayette, and Franklin. Transformed into playgrounds and parking lots, these cemeteries were obliterated with sometimes horrific callousness. Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries tells the intriguing history of these burial grounds, whether revered or long forgotten.

Rest in Pieces
Rest in Pieces

Author: Bess Lovejoy

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1451655010

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A “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead. For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer’s office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln’s corpse. Einstein’s brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy—which they drank. From Alexander the Great to Elvis Presley, and from Beethoven to Dorothy Parker, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death.

Where Are They Buried? (2023 Revised and Updated)
Where Are They Buried? (2023 Revised and Updated)

Author: Tod Benoit

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2023-04-25

Total Pages: 838

ISBN-13: 076248277X

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This bestselling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons has been revised and updated to include celebrities like Betty White, Alex Trebek, and many more. Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and multitudes of the morbidly curious to the graves, monuments, and tombstones of the more than 500 celebrities and antiheroes included in the book. The most comprehensive guide on the subject by far, every entry features an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of the death, and step-by-step directions to the grave, including not only the name of the cemetery but the exact location of the gravesite and how to reach it. The book also provides a handy index of grave locations organized by state, province, and country to make planning a grave-hopping road trip easy and efficient. The 2023 edition adds 8 new entries including Kobe Bryant, Eddie Van Halen, and Regis Philbin.