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| x Pet cemetery |
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A pet cemetery is a cemetery for animals.
In addition to burying human remains, many human cultures also regularly bury animal remains. This is often necessary for hygienic reasons when the body cannot be disposed of in another way.
Pets and other...
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| x Tower Hamlets Cemetery |
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Tower Hamlets Cemetery is a cemetery located in the East End of London; its nearest tube station is Mile End. The cemetery opened in 1841 and closed for burials in 1966. It is now a nature reserve, and other land has been added to the park,...
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| x Graceland Cemetery |
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Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at Clark and Irving Park. The Sheridan stop on the Red Line is...
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| x Mount Carmel Cemetery |
Mount Carmel Cemetery is located in Wyandotte, Michigan in the United States. Established in 1864, Mt Carmel Cemetery is currently an active and open cemetery. The original cemetery was 10 acres (40,000 m) holding over 8,000 interments. An...
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| x Soviet military cemetery in Warsaw |
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The Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, is the burial place of over 20,000 Soviet soldiers who died fighting against Nazi Germany. It contains one of the first major monuments to be built in Warsaw to those who fought in the Second World War...
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| x Notre-Dame Cemetery |
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Notre Dame Cemetery, located at 455 Montreal Rd., in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, opened in 1872. It is the most prominent Catholic cemetery in Ottawa. The cemetery is located just south of Beechwood Cemetery on St. Laurent Blvd in the east end of the...
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| x World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial |
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The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American soldiers who died in Europe during World War II.
On June 8, 1944, the U.S. First Army established the...
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| x Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn |
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Cypress Hills Cemetery was the first nonsectarian cemetery corporation organized in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York City. It is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn. Established in 1848 east of the Ridgewood Reservoir, a section of the...
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| x Honolulu Catholic Cemetery |
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The Honolulu Catholic Cemetery (also known as the King Street Catholic Cemetery) is a cemetery in Honolulu, Hawaii. The cemetery is for Roman Catholics and is located at 839-A South King Street. It is maintained by the Roman Catholic Diocese of...
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| x Evergreen Cemetery |
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Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery in Juneau, the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska. It was established in 1887 to replace the older cemetery on Chicken Ridge, near Main Street, when that location was staked as a gold mine. Most of the graves in...
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| x Hietaniemi cemetery |
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The Hietaniemi cemetery (in Swedish language Sandudds begravningsplats) is located in the Töölö district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is the location for Finnish state funeral services.
The cemetery includes a large military cemetery...
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| x Vale Cemetery, Schenectady |
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Vale Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Schenectady, New York. It opened on 21 October 1857 when the Rev. Julius Seely dedicated what was then termed "the Vale". It has tripled its size since opening and today it holds the remains of some of the...
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| x Calvary Cemetery |
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Calvary Cemetery is a 40-acre (162,000 m²) cemetery located in the Ravenna/Bryant neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA, on the southwest slope of a hill overlooking University Village. It was dedicated on December 1, 1889.
The cemetery, which is...
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| x Baron de Hirsch Cemetery |
The Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, also known as the Beth Israel Synagogue Cemetery, is a Jewish cemetery located on west side of Windsor Street near Connaught Avenue in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It has been the burial ground of the...
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| x Hollywood Cemetery |
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Hollywood Cemetery is a large, sprawling cemetery located at 412 South Cherry Street in Richmond, Virginia. Characterized by rolling hills and winding paths overlooking the James River, it is the resting place of two United States Presidents, James...
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| x Ross Bay Cemetery |
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Ross Bay Cemetery, located at 1516 Fairfield Road in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, Canada was opened in 1873. The 27.5 acre (111,000 m²) cemetery is part of a public park and its south side faces Ross Bay on the Pacific Ocean. In...
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| x Mount Olivet Cemetery-Halifax |
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at which 19 bodies recovered from the RMS Titanic are buried. Many of the dead from the Halifax Explosion are also buried here, including Vincent Coleman, the...
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| x Allerton Cemetery |
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Purchase of the land for Allerton Cemetery was completed in October 1906, the Church of England section was consecrated by the Bishop of Liverpool on 24 September 1909, and the first burial in the cemetery took place on 29 December 1909. It is still...
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| x St James Cemetery |
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St James's Cemetery is an urban park behind the Liverpool Cathedral that is below ground level. Until 1825 the space was a stone quarry, and until 1936 it was used as the Liverpool city cemetery. It has been designated a Grade II* Historic Park by...
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| x Anzio War Cemetery |
The Commonwealth Anzio War Cemetery is to be found about a kilometer from Anzio town in Italy. It is located 70 kilometers south of Rome. It should not be confused with the Beach Head Cemetery which is for Americans.
Anzio War Cemetery is a special...
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| x Congressional Cemetery |
The Congressional Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the bank of the Anacostia River. It is the final resting place of thousands of individuals who helped form the nation and the city of Washington...
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| x Old Chapel Hill Cemetery |
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Old Chapel Hill Cemetery is a graveyard located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The land was a land grant to the University of North Carolina by the State of North Carolina. The land...
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| x Merry Cemetery |
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The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânţa, Maramureş county, Romania. It is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the persons that are...
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| x Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island |
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The Moravian Cemetery at 2205 Richmond Road in New Dorp on Staten Island, New York is the largest cemetery on the island. Opened in 1740, it is situated on the southeastern foot of the Todt Hill ridge, and to its southwest is High Rock Park, one of...
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| x Old Saint Paul's Cemetery |
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Old Saint Paul's Cemetery is a cemetery located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is noted for the several important historical figures that are interred in its grounds.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in...
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| x Rock Creek Cemetery |
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Rock Creek Cemetery — also Rock Creek Church Cemetery — is an 86-acre (350,000 m) cemetery with a natural rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is...
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| x Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago |
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Rosehill Cemetery is a Victorian-era cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, and at 350 acres (1.4 km), is the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago. The name "Rosehill" resulted from a City Clerk's error – the area was previously...
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| x Oak Ridge Cemetery |
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Oak Ridge Cemetery is a cemetery located in Springfield, Illinois in the United States.
Lincoln's Tomb, which serves as the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, his wife and all but one of his children, is located at Oak Ridge. A number of other...
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| x Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark |
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery in Newark's North Ward. It is located on the west bank of the Passaic River in Newark's Broadway neighborhood, opposite Kearny. It occupies approximately 40 acres (162,000 m²) and is widely...
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| x Persian Shiite Cemetery, St. Petersburg |
Historical Persian Cemetery now forms a small sector of the Muslim part of the Novo-Volkovskoie Cemetery in St. Petersburg.
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| x Fairmount Cemetery, Newark |
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Fairmount Cemetery is a 150 acre (607,000 m²) Victorian cemetery in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey, in the neighborhood of Fairmount. It opened in 1855, shortly after the Newark City Council banned burials in the central city due to fears that...
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| x Beechwood Cemetery |
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Beechwood Cemetery is the national cemetery of Canada. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is a 160 acre (647,000 m²) cemetery designated as a National Historic Site in 2001. A woodland cemetery founded in 1873, it is the largest cemetery in the city...
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| x Oise-Aisne Cemetery |
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The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial is an American military cemetery in northern France. Plots A through to D contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I, 597 of which were not...
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| x Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago |
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Bachelor's Grove Cemetery is a small, abandoned cemetery in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is located near Midlothian and Oak Forest, Illinois in the Rubio Woods Forest Preserve on the Midlothian Turnpike. It is well-known for its haunted stories...
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| x Enclosed cremation cemetery |
Enclosed cremation cemetery is a term used by archaeologists to describe a type of cemetery found in north western Europe during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. They are similar to urnfield burial grounds in that they consist of a...
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| x Calvary Cemetery, Atuona |
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Calvary Cemetery (French: Cimetière Calvaire) is the main cemetery in Atuona, Hiva ‘Oa, French Polynesia. It is located on a hillside on the eastern edge of town, overlooking the anchorage on Atuona Bay.
The cemetery is the final resting place of...
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| x Nashville City Cemetery |
Nashville City Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. Many of Nashville's prominent historical figures are buried there.
Nashville City Cemetery was opened on January 1, 1822. By 1850, over 11,000 people were buried there....
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| x Oakland Cemetery |
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Oakland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery, as well as one of the largest green spaces, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded as "Atlanta Cemetery" in 1850 on six acres (2.4 hectares) of land southeast of the city, it was renamed in 1872 to reflect the...
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| x Calverton National Cemetery |
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Calverton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in eastern Long Island, the hamlet of Wading River, the Town of Riverhead in Suffolk County, New York. It encompasses 1,045 acres (4.23 km) and as of the end of 2008 had 212...
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| x Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery |
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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is situated in the city of San Diego on the Fort Rosecrans Military Reservation. The cemetery is located approximately 10 miles west of downtown San Diego, overlooking the bay and the city. Fort Rosecrans is named...
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| x Greenmount Cemetery |
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Green Mount Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1839, it is noted for the large number of historical figures that have been interred in its grounds as well as a large number of prominent...
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| x Mount Olivet Cemetery |
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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 250-acre (1 km²) cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mount Olivet has been continuously operated since its establishment in 1856. It serves as the final resting place for many of Middle Tennessee's political and...
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| x Campo di Verano cemetery |
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The Campo di Verano cemetery (Italian: Cimitero del Verano) is a well known cemetery in Rome that was founded in the early 19th century. The Cemetery is currently divided into sections: the Jewish cemetery, the Catholic cemetery and the monument to...
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| x Schaarbeek Cemetery |
Schaarbeek Cemetery is a cemetery in Brussels, Belgium, and is where René Magritte and his wife Georgette were interred. Although named after Schaarbeek, it is not actually located in that municipality. It is partially in the neighbouring...
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| x Anfield Cemetery |
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Anfield Cemetery, also known as the City of Liverpool Cemetery, is on Priory Road, Anfield, Liverpool, England (grid reference SJ365940).
It covers an area of some 110 acres (45 ha) and includes axial and circular paths, two chapels and a Gothic...
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| x Golden Gate National Cemetery |
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Golden Gate National Cemetery is a U.S. National Cemetery, located in the city of San Bruno, San Mateo County, 12 miles (19 km) south of San Francisco. Because of the name and location, it is frequently confused with San Francisco National Cemetery,...
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| x Sheffield General Cemetery |
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The General Cemetery is a cemetery in the City of Sheffield, England that opened in 1836, and closed for burial in 1978. It was the principal cemetery in Victorian Sheffield with over 87,000 burials. Today it is a conservation area (one of only six...
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| x Picpus Cemetery |
The Picpus Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Picpus) is the largest private cemetery in the city of Paris, France. It was created from land seized from the convent of the Chanoinesses de St-Augustin, during the Revolution.
Located at 35 Picpus street in...
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| x Flanders Field |
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Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War I cemetery on the southeast edge of the town of Waregem, Belgium. The memorial was designed by architect Paul Cret. This is the only American World War I cemetery in Belgium and 411...
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| x Crown Hill Cemetery |
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Crown Hill Cemetery, located at 700 West 38th Street in Indianapolis, is the third largest cemetery in the United States at 555 acres (2.2 km²). It contains 25 miles (40 km) of paved road, over 150 species of trees and plants, over 185,000 graves,...
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| x Kerepesi Cemetery |
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Kerepesi Cemetery (Hungarian: Kerepesi úti temető or Kerepesi temető, official name: Fiumei úti nemzeti sírkert, ie. "Fiume Road National Graveyard") is the most famous cemetery in Budapest. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Hungary which has...
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| x Forest Hills Cemetery |
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Forest Hills Cemetery in the Forest Hills area of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (a primarily residential section of Boston) is a historic 275-acre (1.1 km) cemetery, greenspace, arboretum and sculpture garden. Designed in 1848, it is one of the...
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| x Igualada Cemetery |
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Igualada Cemetery or the Cemetery Nou in Igualada, near Barcelona, Catalonia, was designed by the architects Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós after winning an architectural competition in 1984. Constructed between 1985 and 1994 as a replacement for...
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| x Zachary Taylor National Cemetery |
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Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, located at 4701 Brownsboro Road (US-42), in northeast Louisville, Kentucky (near Saint Matthews, Kentucky) is a national cemetery where former President of the United States Zachary Taylor and his first lady...
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| x Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn |
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Salem Fields Cemetery at 775 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, United States, was founded in 1852 by the Central Synagogue. It is the final resting place for many of the prominent German-Jewish families of New York City including members of the...
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| x Ixelles Cemetery |
The Ixelles Cemetery (French: Cimetière d'Ixelles, Dutch: begraafplaats van Elsene), located in Ixelles/Elsene in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemeteries in Belgium.
The Ixelles Cemetery also refers to a neighbourhood with a...
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| x Willesden Jewish Cemetery |
Willesden Jewish Cemetery is a cemetery for Jews in Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, London Borough of Brent. It opened in 1873 on a 20-acre (0.08 km) site. More properly, it is the Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery.
Some of the notable persons...
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| x Insurgents Cemetery |
The Insurgents Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Belgrade, the capital of the Republic of Serbia. It is located in Karadjordjev park in Vracar. The cemetery contains the bodies of insurgents killed during the siege of Belgrade in the First Serbian...
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| x Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery |
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Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is an American military cemetery located in Saint Louis County, Missouri, just on the banks of the Mississippi River. The cemetery was established after the American Civil War in an attempt to put together a...
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| x Glenwood Cemetery |
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The Glenwood Cemetery is located at 2525 Washington Avenue in Houston, Texas. It was the first cemetery in Houston to be professionally designed and opened in 1871. The cemetery is situated between Washington Avenue on the North side and Memorial...
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