The most beautiful tombstones. Unusual cemeteries
Paul G Lind was a fan of poker, football, computers and mosaics. After Paul's death, he obviously has no time for games. But with the mosaic they decided not to separate it. Therefore, the loving brother and son spared no money to ensure that the deceased lay more calmly underground. And so that his tombstone could be seen from afar. Pay attention to the design work in the form of a crossword puzzle, which also cannot but attract the attention of those passing by.
Source: weburbanist.com
No. 9. Davis Memorial - Hiawatha, Kansas
In 1930, the wife of John Milburn, a wealthy American and loving husband. The widower fell into deep depression. And then he decided to become the owner of a whole collection of statues that would remind him of old days. So about 70 marble reproductions of Milburn and his wife were born. All of them rest around and inside the wife's crypt. The amount that John did not regret - $ 200 thousand.
Source: kansassampler.org
No. 8. Gerard's graveBarthelemy- Paris, France
There are many strange graves in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. This is because artists, poets, writers, musicians, artists and other representatives of high art are buried there. One of them is Gerard Barthelemy ( 1938 - 2002 ). Above it stands a huge reproduction of the pink spoonbill - an endangered species of incredibly rare birds.
Source: theartsadventurer.com
No. 7. Grave Dollhouse- Medina, Tennessee
In 1931, 5-year-old Dorothy Harvey died. She was very fond of dolls. Therefore, a grave was built for her in the form dollhouse. It is said that some saw the ghost of the baby inside this unusual crypt. The reason lies in the unusual burial of Dorothy. She died of measles, which in the 1930s, American doctors had not yet fully learned to fight. Therefore, the baby's body was burned in the cemetery Hope Hill.
Source: slightlywarped.com
No. 6. Mary Jay's grave- Dartmoor, England
In the second half of the 18th century, the mentally ill Englishwoman Mary Jay died. The reason is suicide. locals were too superstitious. Therefore, they considered the burial of the deceased next to the rest bad omen. As a result, they buried her far from the rest, in a rather unconventional place.
Source: wikipedia.org
No. 5. Tombstone HannahTwynnoy— MalmesburyAbbey, Great Britain
It was in XVII century. Hanna was a barmaid in White Lion Pub. One day a zoo came to see them in Wiltshire. Hannah has her eye on the tigers. Therefore, she constantly teased the animals. One day, the predators got tired of the bullying of the barmaid: they escaped from the cage and ... Well, you understand.
Source: wikipedia.org
No. 4. Colonel J.C.P.H. and Lady J.W.C. - Roermond, The Netherlands
IN XIX century in the Netherlands it was forbidden to burn and bury people of different faiths together, Protestants and Catholics in particular. Colonel J.C.P.H. died in 1880. Efferdson. His body was burned next to the fence that divided the cemetery into 2 halves: for “ ours and yours“. After 8 years, his wife, J.W.C., also passed away. Van Gorkum. The body of the deceased was burned on the other side of the fence. See what monuments have been erected at the burial places of lovers.
Source: www.atlasobscura.com
No. 3. Richardand Catherine Dotson - Savannah, Georgia, USA
In the 1800s in Shroud, this site was the family cemetery of Richard and Katherine Dotson. But during the Second World War, the town had to be expanded and an airport built on the burial site. What to do with the Dotson graves? And nothing, leave everything as it was. With minor adjustments.
Thanks to these adjustments today, everyone who walks the 10th runway Savannah International Airport, can admire the graves of Richard and Katherine Dotson.
January 27, 2015 No one is surprised that visits to cemeteries are included in excursion programs in many cities around the world. At the same time, the cemeteries themselves are sometimes able to surprise - tourists who appreciate architecture and unusual works of art, as well as a quiet, contemplative rest, find for themselves local cemeteries a lot of interesting. We publish here a list of the most amazing and beautiful, in our opinion, cemeteries in different corners planets.
1. Père Lachaise Cemetery, France, Paris
Today, this cemetery in the eastern part of Paris is perhaps the most famous in the world. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit it throughout the year. However, this was not always the case: in 1804, when the authorities allocated a place for him, the Parisians did not want to bury their relatives there just because of his low fame. The city hall of Paris took an unprecedented step: the ashes of the writer Molière and two legendary lovers: Abelard and Eloise were transported to Pere Lachaise. After that, many world-famous people found their last refuge here - Honore de Balzac, Frederic Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Marcel Marceau and many other figures of literature and art, as well as famous politicians.
2. Arlington National Cemetery, USA
The world's largest military cemetery is located in Arlington, a suburb of the US capital Washington. In addition to participants in wars and various military conflicts that the United States has waged around the world since 1865, presidents, chairmen of the Supreme Court, and American astronauts are buried at Arlington Cemetery. The cemetery covers an area of almost three square kilometers, currently there are about 300,000 graves.
Chinese Christian cemetery on the western side of Hong Kong Island in the form of an amphitheatre. The overpopulated territory of Hong Kong, a rocky island, did not allow the expansion of the Pok Fu Lam cemetery, created in 1882, so Hong Kong Christians were forced to build terraces for burials on the mountainside, connecting them with streets and alleys. Over time, the cemetery began to resemble a giant open amphitheater. Some burials are made with great artistic sophistication.
The only underwater cemetery-crematorium in the world is an artificial reef off the east coast of the United States. Here, those who during their lifetime were somehow connected with the sea find their last shelter - divers, sailors. The underwater territory of the reef covers an area of 65,000 m2. The most famous burial is the 86-year-old Edith Hink, a resident of Naples. Her relatives decided that Edith loved the sea so much that she deserved to be buried in it.
An ancient necropolis near the highland Ossetian village of Dargavs. 97 stone crypts have been preserved here, most often in the form of pointed towers. According to legend, during the plague in the 14th century, people themselves came here, built crypts and waited for death. The necropolis is located on Mount Rabinyrang, from where a picturesque panorama of the Caucasus Mountains opens.
One of the most visited places in the capital of Argentina, and rightfully one of the most beautiful cemeteries peace. Here are the burial places of many Argentine presidents and other celebrities, the most famous of them is the grave of Eva Peron, a legendary woman, especially revered in countries Latin America. Eva Peron was an actress, the wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron, and she herself was involved in politics a lot. The cemetery is part of the National historical museum. Among the sculptures in the cemetery, there are many genuine works of art that have been declared national cultural and historical treasures.
This strange "joyful" cemetery was created in the 1930s by original local artist Stan John Patra. Crosses and wooden tombstones are decorated with playful inscriptions and drawings in the primitivism genre, depicting episodes of the life (and sometimes death) of the buried, telling about their virtues and small weaknesses. According to the artist, a joyful attitude towards death is a legacy of the Dacians, the ancestors of modern Romanians, who believed that death was only a transition to a better life.
The cemetery was created in 1786, in accordance with the decree of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary Joseph II, who forbade the burial of people in the city. Further fate city cemetery is unusual - in the 19th century it became a favorite place for walking and romantic dates Lviv, and in the twentieth century, and a place of pilgrimage for tourists. People are attracted by a huge (about 400,000) number of sculptures, crypts and tombstones, with inscriptions in Polish, German, Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew, Latin, Armenian and some other languages of the inhabitants of international Lviv. Many of the monuments are monuments of art, the Lychakiv Cemetery is included in the World List of Sites cultural heritage UNESCO.
The world's largest Islamic cemetery and one of the largest cemeteries in the world. There are about five million graves on an area of 6 km2. Many Muslim prophets are buried here, nearby is the grave of Hazrat Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib, the “Fourth Imam”, a shrine revered by Muslims around the world.
10. The hanging coffins of Sagada, Philippines
According to scientists, the mountain cemetery of "hanging coffins" has existed on the Philippine island of Luzon for more than two thousand years. Representatives of the Sogadi people bury their dead here. Now the Sogadians are Christians converted to the Catholic faith by the Spanish colonialists, but they refuse to bury the dead. Coffins hollowed out from solid logs are prepared during a person’s lifetime, most often he does it himself, and if for some reason he cannot finish this work, his relatives and friends hollow out the coffin. The burial ritual includes a complex procedure for delivering the coffin with the body of the deceased to a cemetery located high in the mountains, on sheer cliffs, and fixing it on a rock. Perhaps this is the most unusual cemetery from our entire list.
11. Sucre's General Cemetery, Bolivia 
The main cemetery of the city of Sucre is the most prestigious in Bolivia, the family of the deceased has to pay $10,000 for the burial. True, with this money the deceased stays for seven years in a special vault, a kind of pantheon, and only after that is moved to the ground, to an ordinary grave. True, not forever, but for the next twenty years, after which the grave is completely removed, there are many who want to be buried in the cemetery in Sucre. Many Bolivian presidents are buried here, including Hilarion Daza, the infamous initiator of the war with Chile, after which Bolivia lost access to the Pacific coast.
A cemetery is not the most pleasant place that most of us have visited in our lives. In the literal sense, the deathly silence that envelops this place inspires fear, and the crows sitting on rickety crosses, whose cawing breaks the silence with a piercing sound, inspires real horror. Although the tombstones that can be seen in the cemetery can be much more creepy than the cemetery itself. Here are 25 of the strangest, heartbreaking and sometimes funny tombstones from around the world.
Woman at the piano. I wonder if she played in her lifetime?
This woman really loved Mickey Mouse
We hope that the death of this man and smoking are not connected.
Tomb of the creator of the labyrinth
Now they will sleep forever
The tree mercilessly swallowed the old grave
This tomb is located in Paris, France and is the resting place of the inventor of the gas lamp, Charles Pigeon.
In this grave rests a 10-year-old girl who died in 1871, who during her lifetime was very afraid of thunderstorms. After the death of her daughter, her heartbroken mother ordered to build a basement next to the girl's grave, where she could go down during a thunderstorm and calm her daughter.
This life-size monument in a glass box was commissioned by the mother of the deceased.
This is the grave of a 16-year-old girl whose sister commissioned this life-size headstone.
Lovers from Thailand
One of the most heartbreaking monuments we have ever seen and reminds us that we are all in the hands of God.
A tombstone in the form of a mobile phone in one of the Israeli cemeteries
Happy forever
A terrifying tomb located in Genoa, Italy
In this grave with an eerie headstone lies the writer Georges Rodenbach who got out of it.
Mortsafe: This appearance of the grave was common in 18th century Scotland and was done in order to protect the graves from looting, which was a frequent occurrence among medical students who so lacked practical material
Nature is relentless
The frightening gravestone of Fernand Arbelote, who was a musician and actor
Tomb of an 18th century French journalist
Whoever lies here really enjoyed playing scrabble.
These are the graves of a husband and wife connected to each other. The wife was a Protestant and the husband was a Catholic. They died at a time when Catholics and Protestants were buried in different cemeteries.
This is the last remaining grave in an old cemetery in rural Indiana. Much of the cemetery was moved to make way for the state highway. The grandson of the woman buried there refused to move his grandmother. The county eventually gave in and built a road around the grave
Colonel J.W.C van Gorcum, who died in 1880, is buried in the Protestant section. And his wife, Lady van Efferden (J.C.P.H van Aefferden) - in Catholic. They married in 1842 when she was 22 and he was 33.
His wife, who belonged to a noble family, did not want to lie in the family tomb, instead she wanted to be closer to her husband and asked to be buried as close to him as possible.
Her wish was granted, and the lovers are still holding hands.
Recoleta Argentinean Cemetery - a famous cemetery located in the eponymous district of Buenos Aires - was the last refuge of Eva Duarte de Peron (Evita Peron) and not only. Many military leaders, presidents, scientists and poets are buried here.
David Alleno was an Italian immigrant and worked as a cemetery caretaker for 29 years. David also dreamed that his body lay in this cemetery. He saved up money to buy himself a place and built his own headstone. He even returned to his homeland to find a stone-cutting artist there who would bring his idea to life. The caretaker wanted the carver to depict him with keys, a broom and a bucket of water. Rumor has it that David invested own life into this work, and as soon as the tombstone was completed, he died.
Others object to this that David did not die until many years later.
The bust of this strict woman is also located in the Recoleta cemetery. The stone statue of a man sitting back to back with a lady is none other than her husband. Unlike the charming Catholic and Protestant couple, these spouses do not hold hands or even look at each other.
The husband died first, and his wife died a few years later. They lived together for 30 years. Without saying a word to each other.
Fernand Arbelot was a musician and actor. He died in 1990 and is buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, and before his death, he wanted only one thing - to forever look into the face of his wife.
The boy, who spent most of his young life in a wheelchair, after death was able to break these boundaries and fly - now he is free.
The Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris can rightly be considered one of the most visited cemeteries in the world, where many of the monuments are real works of art. But perhaps the most dramatic of all comes from a writer that most people have never even heard of.
Georges Rodenbach - Belgian 19th writer century, the author of the symbolic story "Dead Bruges" (Bruges-la-Morte). Main character works - Yug Vian, a widower, inconsolably mourning his early departed wife.
The cemetery in the village of Sapinta, Maramures County, Romania, is known for its cheerful atmosphere. Surely those who asked to be buried in this cemetery had a strong sense of humor.
Graves reflect people's hobbies in life. Some were shepherds, others were soldiers, and still others loved parties and poetry. Some tombstones tell the story of the death of the buried: some were killed by thieves, others were killed in a car accident ...
Perfect sense of humor
Jack Crowell is the owner of the last wooden clothespin factory in the USA. He always wanted children to play on his grave.
When Ray Tse Jr. died at the age of 15, his older brother, a successful businessman, decided to give his brother, who always dreamed of driving a car, a posthumous gift. The stone car cost $250,000, but maybe now Ray is good at driving his own Mercedes Benz. The grave is located at Linden Cemetery in New Jersey.
Perhaps the second most popular French cemetery, Montparnasse, has become a haven for the inventor Charles Pigeon, who rises on the bed where he lay with his wife and looks around for an angel.
