Opened in 1832, this cemetery contains many remarkable monuments and famous people, including Brunel (father and son), writers Thackeray and Trollope, and playwrights Rattigan and Pinter.
Founded in 1852, Brookwood, or the London Necropolis, had its own railway connection to London. Once the world's largest cemetery, it contains some 240,000 graves, among them were [link] Read more.
A burial ground for London's Nonconformists from 1665 onwards, Bunhill Fields is the last resting place of Quakers founder George Fox (d. 1691) & poet & painter William Blake (d.1827). Read more.
This cemetery’s most famous resident is Karl Marx. In 1970 it became the scene of a mass hunt for the ‘Highgate Vampire’, sparked by local rumours of supernatural activity.
The simple tomb of Sir Winston Churchill can be found in the grounds of St Martin. He was buried here in 1965 after the last non-royal state funeral in Britain. Read more.
Guests incl Dracula author Bram S (d.1912), writer Rudyard Kipling (d.1936), Carry On star Sid J (d.1976), T. Rex singer Marc B (d.1977), Who drummer Keith M (d.1978) and actor Peter Sellers (d.1980). Read more.
Famous residents incl. Bailey bridge inventor, Sir Ronald Bailey (d.1985), Women's rights pioneer M Wollstonecraft (d.1797) and her daughter, M Shelley (d.1851), the author of Frankenstein. Read more.
Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine is the memorial to Marc Bolan where he died when the car in which he was a passenger hit a sycamore tree on Queen's Ride in Barnes, London on 16 September 1977. Read more.
Walk in the entrance and continue all the way straight up them turn right at the top
Last resting place of Mark Twain. The superintendent of the cemetery says that he estimates 2,000 to 3,000 visitors a year go to visit Mark Twain, 175 years after his birth.
Marilyn Monroe is buried here. Her tomb has a tint of red from lipstick markings. The cemetery isn't seen from the street - go thru the Alleyway with the AMC sign; entrance is on the right.
The famous Fazlur Khan is buried here. Once called the Einstein of STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING. He died at the youthful age of 53 in 1982. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlur_Khan
Before he died, he shot an arrow from the Priory window, and where the arrow landed was to be the site of his grave. The grave with an inscription is within sight of the ruins of the Kirklees Priory.
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote "hell is other people." Here, he shares a grave with Simone de Beauvoir. LOL.
Serge Gainsbourg est enterré avec ses parents Olga et Joseph Ginsburg. Les fans ont l'habitude de déposer des cigarettes, des tickets de métro ou des petits mots, faites de même ! Read more.
A Summerhouse stands today, dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was buried on the island in the Round Oval in 1997 - it is a peculiarly appropriate spot. Read more.
This resting ground for such 19th-century titans as jeweler Charles Tiffany and pianist Louis Gottschalk, is running out of burial plots, so the cemetery is turning to alternative revenue streams. Read more.
Interesting Facts:Many legendary Americans are buried in the church’s cemetery, including Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury), William Bradford, Jr. (publisher), Robert Fulton (inventor of
Ralph Waldo Ellison, author of "The Invisible Man" is buried here.
New York's premier spot for famous dead people. Find Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Joseph Pulitzer, Herman Melville, Fiorello LaGuardia, Celia Cruz & WC Handy... for starters.
JK Rowling got the name for her characters McGonagal and Tom Riddel from here.
Late January - early February, late March - early April, and Xmas are busy times for this particular memorial.
Hundreds of pilgrims from around the world come here to visit the eternal resting place of the greatest electric guitarist that ever lived. Check out the Stratocaster. What's wrong with this picture?
The final resting place of Beethoven, Boltzmann, Brahms, Schoenberg, Strauss and Schubert amongst other musical geniuses. It is one of the largest cemeteries in the world, and the largest in Europe. Read more.
Samuel Ryder – Patron of the Ryder Cup is buried here. By age 51, he boasted a six handicap and joined the Verulam Golf Club in St Albans in 1910. Within a year he was elected Captain of the club ☠ Read more.
