Cruising Cemeteries around the Globe

Touring Graveyards for History and Understanding

I suppose if you are bashful, a cemetery is a great place to visit given that no one is likely to talk to you much. I like cemeteries for the opportunities they provide to commune with the universe, to learn a bit about history, and to appreciate how other cultures treat both death and life. Apparently I’m not alone in seeking out these slightly offbeat destinations; cemetery tourism is increasingly mainstream, so much so that it was covered in the Chicago Tribune recently and I was quoted: Irene Levine, Nothing like a cemetery to enliven a trip, Chicago Tribune (July 8, 2015).

Here is some of the coverage of cemeteries in the BashfulAdventurer.com:

United States

Connecticut

• Revolution in Ridgefield
• Sellecks Corners Cemetery

Florida

• Peacefulness by the Sea, Captiva
• Key West: African Cemetery at Higgs Beach
• Life and Death at the Key West Cemetery
• Key West: Remembering the Maine Far from Havana

Louisiana

• New Orleans Cemetery #1

Massachusetts

• Salem: Bonus History in Witch City

New York State

• Garrison: The Strife Is Over
• Hamilton: Cemetery at Colgate University
• Hawthorne: A Visit to the Babe Ruth Grave
• History, Hucksters, and a Highway in Brewster
• Visiting Mount Kisco’s Invisible Church
• Mount Kisco: Old North Castle Church at St. Mark’s Place
• New York City: African Burial Ground
• Forgotten in Pleasantville?
• Graveyard in Saratoga: Death on a Clam Shell
• Sleepy Hollow: A Cemetery Both Literary and Spiritual
• Ghostly Fiction in Sleepy Hollow
• Sleepy Hollow, Where Were You during the Revolution?
• Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow: In Memory of the Revolution
• Graveyard Art Westhampton: Earthly or Angelic
• History in the West Point Graveyard

Rhode Island

• An Unanticipated Pet Cemetery in Newport
• Newport: Trinity Church, Where Were You in the Revolution?

Virginia

• Arlington Strong
• Arlington National Cemetery: Running across History
• Arlington National Cemetery: Remembering the Maine Far from Havana

Belize

• Graveyard in Belize

Ecuador

• Graveyard in Galapagos Islands

France

• Giverny: Monet’s Grave
• Normandy American Cemetery: Standing on the Paths of Heroes
• Normandy American Cemetery
• Is the Line at the Paris Catacombs Worth the Wait?
• Paris: Macarons and Macabre All in One Morning
• Paris: This Is the End

Iceland

• Skaholt Church Graveyard

Mexico

• Cemetery on Isla Mujeres
• The Contrasts of Isla Mujeres

Peru

• Cusco: Working Kids

Russia

• St. Petersburg: Romanov Graves at Peter and Paul Cathedral

—Lori Tripoli

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