Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

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

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

A small obelisk marks the spot where Captain Sam Greele was killed by a falling tree.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

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

Because there's no place like home.

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

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

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.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.