Cemeteries in the United States

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

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.

Final resting place of a 19th century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

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

Because there's no place like home.

The final resting place of the songwriter who penned “Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

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

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

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

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.