12 Must-Visit US Cemeteries

Our list of 12 cemeteries in the United States that should be on the "must visit" list for any history or cemetery lover. Includes cemeteries from the East Coast to the West Coast, and some history of cemetery development in the US such as the Garden Cemetery concept and the Memorial Park concept. Cemeteries include: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts; Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow (Tarrytown), New York; Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York; Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina; Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia; St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana; Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California; Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, California; Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona. Some of the famous graves included are: Judy Garland, Estelle Getty, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Paul Revere, Jean Michel Basquiat, Leonard Bernstein, Marie Laveau, Andrew Carnegie, Walt Disney, Walter Chrysler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Howard Taft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louis L'Amour, Chris Cornell, Johnny Ramone, L. Frank Baum, Samuel Adams, the crew of the HL Hunley, and the Kennedy family. More than 50% of the photos and clips included in this video are from our personal collection. Several photographs and works of art are in the public domain, and others are under a variety of Creative Commons licenses, including 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0. All photographs are used here with honest intentions under the principles of Fair Use in an educational video. Where attribution is necessary, credit goes to: Magnolia Cemetery, Midnightdreary, Bostonian13, Ingfbruno, Msact, Lthomas2, Rhododendrites, Michelle, Bubba73, Britt Reints, Russ Nelson, Music on the Brain, Arthur Dark, Adam Jones, Sean Russell, Cinespia, Gary Minnaert, Chris English, Meribona, Abi Skipp, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. If you have any questions, please comment or reach out to us. Thank you for watching - and don't forget to subscribe!