Famous Graves I’ve Visited

Cemetery tourism is actually a “thing” and if you’ve never searched a graveyard for a famous headstone, you’ve been missing out. It’s a little history mixed with a scavenger hunt with some mystery and horror thrown in for good luck. This post is a work in progress, but will contain pictures of some of my more famous finds with locations.

Searching for a particular grave? Google maps can take you directly to some of the more famous ones, but Findagrave.com can often give you coordinates, maps, and photos. There’s also many groups who are interested in not only visiting cemeteries, but maintaining some of the forgotten monuments.

Here’s a link to a Google photo album:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/AuKRAThTMagyfhty9

Some shots of Pere LaChaisse Cemetery in Paris:

Musicians

Musicians

Jimmy Hendrix
Isaac Hayes
Tiny Tim
George Jones
Johnny Paycheck
Chuck Berry
Jim Morrison
Chopin
Beethoven
Falco
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Buddy Holly
Ronnie Van Zandt
Edith Piaf
Mozart
Brahms
Schubert
Dvorak
Malcolm McClaren
Johnny Ramone
Elvis
BB King
Prince
Leon Russell
Bob Wills
Roy Clark

Models
Dorothy Stratten
Poets
Oscar Wilde
Robert Burns
Walt Whitman
Actors
Bruce Lee
Eva Gabor
Ava Gardner
Farrah Fawcett
Jimmy Stewart
Dennis Hopper
Mel Brooks
Don Adams
Anton Yelchin
Tyrone Power
Merv Griffin
Leslie Nielson
Jackie Gleason
Walter Matthau
Dean Martin
Presidents
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
George Bush/ Barbara
JFK
Thomas Jefferson
Historical Figures
Stonewall Jackson
Ben Franklin
Davy Crockett
Robert E Lee
John Hancock
Stephen F Austin
Napoleon Bonaparte
Paul Revere
Robert Kennedy
Edward Kennedy
Samuel Adams
Artists
Vincent Van Gogh
Salvador Dali
Monet
Hieronymous Bosch
Edward Munch
Picasso
Cezanne
Michelangelo
Degas
Religious
Oral Roberts
Billy Graham
Joseph Smith
Miscellaneous
Dred Scott
Siamese Bunker Twins
Wolfman Jack
Hugh Hefner
Walt Disney
Jack Daniels
Charles Lindbergh
Eleanor Rigby
Cecile B DeMille
PT Barnum and Tom Thumb
Houdini
Leon Trotsky
Famous Businessmen
Vernon Rudolph- Krispy Kreme
Asa Griggs Candler- Coca Cola
RJ Reynolds
Authors
Edgar Allen Poe
Thomas Wolfe
HP Lovecraft
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louisa May Alcott
Henry Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Douglas Adams
J Frank Dobie
William Shakespeare
Karl Marx
Ray Bradbury
Charles Dickens
Chaucer
Rudyard Kipling
Tennessee Williams
O Henry
Western
Will Rogers
Davy Crockett
Billy the Kid
Billy Clanton, Frank and Tom McLaury
Doc Holliday
Kit Carson
Wild Bill
Calamity Jane
Crime
Bonnie/Clyde
Lee Harvey Oswalk
Al Capone
John Dillinger
Lizzie Borden
Inventors
James Otis
Howard Hughes
Marconi
Comedians
Sam Kinison
Mitch Hedberg
Animals
Old Douglas the Camel
Toto
Old Rip
The Grave of Vincent Van Gogh in Northern France Photo: Bill Wiatrak

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