Gravestones

One was an astronomer who spent his life chasing solar eclipses, the other helped make Emily Dickinson famous.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

This carved stone slab marked the grave of a local dragon slayer, who makes a killer pie.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

A family recipe is just one of several touches that make this Hebrew headstone special.

A life-sized baby elephant tombstone marks the grave of a circus owner at a country church in southern Georgia.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.

Tombstone of a dog that greeted passengers at the Southern Railway Depot.

The final resting place of the hero of Air Florida Flight 90 known as "the man in the water."