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  • St. Louis #1, New Orleans. Since New Orleans is at sea level, tombs are above ground and many are decorated, and exposed to the elements.
  • Salem, MA - with the mystique of witchcraft always blanketing the town, any cemetery in the old New England town has a creepy feel.
  • Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina - A trip inside is topped only by hearing the myriad stories among Recoleta's 6,000-plus temples, pyramids, and castles—in this case, the rose-topped tomb was erected to assuage a family's guilt after a young woman slipped into a coma and was buried alive. Nearby you'll find the flower-strewn grave of Eva Perón; she was buried below 27 feet of steel and cement as a precaution since political rivals had previously stolen her corpse.
  • Lafayette Cemetery, New Orleans - A chilling collection of above ground tombs, was the setting for Interview with the Vampire.
  • Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles - It like something you'd see in a film noir. Clad in a vintage black evening gown, dark sunglasses, and carrying a black lace parasol, Hollywood historian/tour guide Karie Bible appears to have stepped right out of a film noir movie as she leads guests through L.A.'s Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
  • Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA - The land was one of the first park-like cemeteries that slowly replaced the traditional inner city burial grounds. It's the final resting place of 2 U.S. Presidents (James Monroe and John Tyler) as well as the only Confederate President - Jefferson Davis. The name comes from the holly trees found on the land.
  • Highgate Cemetery, London - The land has been the backdrop for numerous horror films. Dug into a hillside overlooking London, an imposing Victorian-era archway overgrown with shrubbery leads into a stone tunnel lined with catacombs, the darkness eventually giving way to a circle of sunlit vaults staged around a 300-year-old cedar.
  • Greyfriars Kirkyard - Edinburgh, Scotland - Thousands of 17th-century graves lined with creepy carvings of skeletons and ghouls make it one of the world's most haunting cemeteries.
  • Westminster Burying Ground, Baltimore - Edgar Allan Poe's final resting place looks as if it's straight out of one of his tales. Three years after Poe's death, much of the graveyard was paved over to make way for a Gothic church, which was built on elevated brick legs that arch over the graves.
  • Salem, MA - Some graves are so old, that they're crumbling from the elements, looking like someone is trying to get in....or out
  • Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, GA - It's best known as the site for the film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. If graveyards were created by set designers, they would all look like Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery, where elaborate, ivy-covered crypts are guarded by disturbingly lifelike statues, and mausoleums are laced with stained glass, all set among the mossy oak trees and blooming gardens of an 18th-century plantation on a bluff overlooking the Wilmington River.
 

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