The John Work family cemetery at Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation in Jeffersonville, Indiana. John was my six-greats grandfather.

If you ever get a chance, read this book. It's one of the better biographies I've read and is essentially what McMurtry used to write Lonesome Dove.

Outstanding history of Texas from 1865-1910 and includes quite a bit about Quanah Parker.

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Yeah, that's the classic Goodnight bio. J Evetts Haley was quite a character. Did most of the leg work starting the PPH Museum in Canyon. Also wrote "A Texan Looks at Lyndon". Anti-LBJ book.

Was it common for smaller towns to have a mason or stone worker to engrave headstones? I've seen a few small family plots in central TX of German immigrants with decorated graves lined with sea shells. Quite an effort l, I'd imagine, for those back then.

Normandy American cemetery, Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific and Berchtesgaden's old cemetery.

Arlington National Cemetery

I think the coolest one I have seen in Texas is Scottsville Cemetery just outside of Marshall. Great architecture with lots of Civil War and even War of 1812 veterans buried there.

Normandy, Arlington, Savanna.

I spent a half day at Pere Lachaise in Paris. It is the most amazing cemetery I've ever visited.

Normandy American Cemetery was amazing and I couldn't help but really feel how somber a place it is. The German cemetery in Normandy is a very interesting place to visit, and VERY Germanic.

Beyond those two, I'd say Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, IL where Lincoln's tomb is and the Christ Church Burial Ground where Ben Franklin and other historical figures are buried are quite interesting.

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Most recent cool cemeteries

Old Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland (home of The American Civil War Memorial)

Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland

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The 19th century Vollmer Cemetery in my NW Houston neighborhood (Timbergrove) back when the area was known as Vollmer:


https://www.theleadernews.com/community/grave-concerns-houston-history-remains-buried-in-timbergrove-backyards/article_e9fdc276-58db-11ef-a21d-07152de1444e.html

Indianola Cemetery. So many came there for a new start in Texas but never made it out of their first port of call.


I'm borrowing FindAGrave photos because the quality is better than mine.

Dietrich Eckart in Berchtesgaden was an early mentor of Adolf Hitler according to our tour guide when I was there this past August.

That is correct.

He was the main person to influence AH in the early days. DE also had a lot to do with party symbolism, especially Deutschland Erwache.

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Aside from Arlington National (which I'm not sure you would call "cool"), there are a couple of cool cemeteries in Granbury TX where Jesse James is buried and a lot of Davy Crockett's relatives. His second wife is buried in another cemetery in town.

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Jessie James the famous outlaw? He is buried in Missouri. Did the guy that worked on hot rods die? I know he was living in Austin for a while.

The Granbury guy was an imposter who claimed to be the outlaw.

Granbury had another imposter, another man living there just before "Jesse James," who claimed he was really John Wilkes Booth. His was an interesting story after death. He committed suicide by arsenic and it mummified his body. A circus huckster claimed his body and it was exhibited in a circus sideshow until the 1950s.

Wonder what's in the water in Granbury?

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=117574

Oak Grove cemetery, nacogdoches tx

Arlington of course. I actually went to a funeral there in the '90s as well: When you see that military salute for someone you know it hits a whole other way.
Jim Morrison's gravesite in Paris, which also has some other famous folks.
In the middle of Shenandoah NP there is actually an active cemetery. You pass it on one the hikes. Apparently part of the condition of the local families selling the land was that they could use that site in perpetuity: but it's just cool to see it there.
And then about 10 minutes from my house is the Balls Bkuff battlefield. It's a nice local park, but it has a small national gravesite, only 16 tombstones I think. It's this tiny little corner of the park,, probably not much more than 800 square feet. I bet a lot of people don't even know it's there.

Boot Hill in Tombstone, Arizona. "Here lies Les Moore, died from 4 shots from a .44, no less, no more".

Kind of surprised granary burying ground in Boston hasn't been mentioned. Probably the coolest I've visited.

Age 14 was a big year for me.
In August 1984, I went on a family vacation to the Pyramids at Giza and the Valley of the Kings.
In January 1985, I went on a school field trip to the Nabatean tombs at Madain Saleh about 5 hours north of the holy city of Medina, Saudi Arabia.

Not exactly a cemetery per se but this was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

Here is a link to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Gallery:
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1293/gallery/

And here are two pictures, one showing the coolest looking of the tombs.
And the second one showing how multiple burial places were dug into the rock.
The third picture is an example of how there are many more tombs there. I'm not happy about the lighting in this picture but hey, my pictures are most likely at my parents house.

Back in 2017, I had to spend a week working in Frankfurt, Germany and I arrived early on Saturday morning so I could adjust to the time (traveling from Sydney, Australia) and do a little sightseeing.

There was some sort of video game competition happening in Cologne which looked interesting but, I decided to take my rental car and head over to Bastogne, Belgium to check that out.

While visiting the Easy Company 101st Airborne foxholes, you can see the town of Foy not very far way so, I drove over to Foy to check out that town. In Foy, I saw an American flag in the distance and drove over to see what that was about.

There was a temporary grave site and a plaque stating that the fallen soldiers that were buried here had been relocated to the American cemetery in Luxembourg. I had no idea but I was planning to stay in Luxembourg that night so I decided to check it out on Sunday.

On the way to the American cemetery, I saw a sign pointing to a German soldier cemetery a couple of kilometers down the road. After I visited the American cemetery, which was amazing, I decided to tour the German cemetery as well.

The Germans had a lot more dead and buried soldiers there including a very large mass grave. There were wreaths that had been laid recently on a few of the German graves which appeared to be from family members who were still living.

One funny thing I saw at the German cemetery was a family name of mine listed in their book of the dead soldiers. It's a name ending in ski which I was assured by one of my elder family members was Polish not German. So the funny thing for me was that right there, I had proof that people with that name definitely fought for the Germans. And it wasn't just one guy. There were three soldiers with that name.

Back to the American cemetery, one of the most interesting things was in their museum building, they showed that there were 12 sets of brothers buried in Luxembourg. I thought that was crazy. Just the mathematical probability of it.

Anyway, should you ever find yourself in Luxembourg, I highly recommend:
Luxembourg American Cemetery
https://www.abmc.gov/Luxembourg

and

Sandweiler German war cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandweiler_German_war_cemetery