For most people, visiting a graveyard is not the most exciting thing they want to do on a trip unless they like “dark tourism.” The graves of famous people, on the other hand, get so many visitors every year that they look like tourist spots. These are the U.S. gravesites that get the most visitors.
1. Tomb Of An Unknown Soldier
Arlington National Cemetery is at 1 Wilson Ave, Fort Myer, VA 22401. A lot of people from all over the United States visit the Arlington National Cemetery to honor the Unknown Soldier. It is a solemn and moving event. It’s amazing to see the exact movements and rituals of the soldiers who were picked to guard the tomb. It makes you think of all the amazing things they gave up for our country.
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2. John F. Kennedy
The Arlington National Cemetery is in Arlington, Virginia, on Lot 45, Section 30. People who visit the grave of the last monument to John F. Kennedy are amazed by the eternal light that has been flickering there since 1963 when the 35th President of the United States was laid to rest. His body is buried next to that of his brother Robert Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
3. George Washington
The address is 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Hwy, Mount Vernon, VA. His grave was near his home, which was on the banks of the Potomac River. People can see both his grave and the room where the first president of the United States died at age 67 from acute laryngitis and epiglottitis.
4. Abraham Lincoln
Oak Ridge Cemetery is at 1441 Monument Ave, Springfield, Illinois. While the tomb of President Lincoln in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, is impressive, the story of how it came to be is even more moving. After he was killed in 1865, President Lincoln’s body was put in a coffin and taken by a funeral train from Washington, D.C., through 180 places to Springfield. As expected, grave robbers were very interested in Lincoln’s grave. His body was moved at least 17 times after it arrived at the Springfield cemetery.
5. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park is located at 450 Auburn Ave. NE, Atlanta, Georgia. Along with being close to the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr.’s father worked as a preacher, the national historic park in Atlanta is a fitting place for his final resting place. There are stepped waterfalls and a reflection pool around King’s grave, and his wife, Coretta Scott King, is buried next to him.
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6. Susan B. Anthony
Mount Hope Cemetery is in Monroe County, Rochester, New York. A lot of women visit Susan B. Anthony’s gravesite on or around election day to leave “I Voted” stickers. She is a symbol of the fight to give women the right to vote. Even though it is very sad, many people no longer do this because they want to protect the headstone.
7. Elvis Presley
Graceland is in Memphis, Tennessee. A lot of people visit “The King’s” grave at his fancy Graceland home every year; it’s one of the most popular tourist spots in the U.S. Presley’s body and that of his mother, Gladys, was first buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, but they had to be moved because grave robbers were always messing with them.
8. Emily Dickinson
The Amherst West Cemetery is on Triangle Street in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although the poet lived alone and died in secret, her work was only found after she had died. Now, every poetry lover who visits Massachusetts wants to see her simple gravesite. Emily Dickinson wrote a lot about death and the future. On her gravestone, it says “Called Back” and then the date she died.
9. Marilyn Monroe
In Los Angeles, California, at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary. The famous movie star lives in Crypt 24 of Westwood Memorial Park, where thousands of people come to honor her and leave flowers and lipstick smears. Hugh Hefner was buried next to Marilyn Monroe’s ashes in the crypt where she was burned, so people who have recently been there can see two famous people’s graves.
10. Johnny Cash
Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Funeral Home & Cremation Center is located at 353 E Main St., Hendersonville, Tennessee 37501. Because he was always sentimental, “The Man in Black” decided to be buried close to his home in Tennessee. He was buried next to his beloved wife June Carter Cash, who had died four months before. “Happiness is being at peace; being with loved ones; being comfortable…” is one of Cash’s most moving lines and it is written on a bench behind the flat headstones. “But most importantly, it’s having those loved ones with you.“
11. Frank Sinatra
Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California. Ole’ Blue Eyes was buried in a blue suit with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, a pack of Camel cigarettes, and a Zippo lighter. He died in 1998. “The best is yet to come,” Sinatra’s 1964 hit, was carved into his original tombstone until 2021 when it was changed in a strange way to “Sleep Warm Poppa.”
12. Babe Ruth
This is where the Gate of Heaven Cemetery is: 10 W Stevens Ave, Hawthorne, NY. More than 70 years have passed since the death of Babe Ruth from cancer at the age of 53. Thousands of fans still visit his gravesite at Gate of Heaven Cemetery every day and leave baseball caps, hats, and other items with the New York Yankees name on them. The impressive-looking statue shows Jesus taking care of a boy.
13. Elizabeth Taylor
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is in Glendale, California, at 1712 S. Glendale Ave. In a hallway near Forest Lawn’s Memorial Terrace, Elizabeth Taylor’s body is lying under an angel with arms open. A Hollywood star from the Golden Age told people that her funeral should start 15 minutes later than planned, which was called “fashionably late.”
14. Bruce Lee
The Lake View Cemetery is located at 1554 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98104. People come from all over the world to see Bruce Lee‘s gravesite, which is right next to that of his son Brandon Lee in Seattle’s Lakeview Cemetery. There is only one thing written on the Kung Fu master’s red tombstone: “Founder of Jeet Kune Do.”
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15. Mark Twain
Woodlawn Cemetery is at 1200 Walnut St., Elmira, NY 11701. Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel L. Clemens, wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and many other books, articles, and short stories. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, which is a national historic site. These gravesites also hold the bodies of many U.S. veterans and lawmakers, but thousands of “bookworms” only visit to see the tombstone of one of America’s most famous comedians, writers, and businessmen.
16. Al Capone
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery is at 1400 S Wolf Rd, Hillside, Illinois. The famous gangster did time in Alcatraz, but he died completely free in his Miami home of a heart attack caused by third-stage syphilis. A lot of people leave beer cans, liquor bottles, and smoke at Al Capone’s gravesite in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Chicago.
17. Walt Disney
The Freedom Mausoleum is in Glendale, California’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Many people say that Walt Disney’s body was frozen in liquid nitrogen, but his family says that his ashes are buried in Glendale, California.
18. Toto
The Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. There is a beautiful remembrance headstone for “Terry,” the Californian Cairn Terrier who played “Toto” in “The Wizard of Oz.” It is at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. This wasn’t where he first rested, though. When the Ventura Freeway was being built, the ground where Terry was buried was moved. Fans from all over the world donated money to help build the headstone. The great-grandson of “Wizard of Oz” author L. Frank Baum was there to dedicate the tribute.
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19. Harry Houdini
The Machpelah Cemetery is on Cypress Hills Street in Queens, New York City, New York. The “Magic Man” has probably not been able to get out of the gravesite of the Great Houdini. People have broken and damaged his gravestone several times in the Jewish Cemetery in Queens, but that doesn’t stop thousands of fans from going to the spot and leaving playing cards.
20. John Belushi
In Chilmark, Massachusetts, at Abel’s Hill Cemetery. His gravestone has a skull and crossbones and says, “I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.” He was on “Saturday Night Live” and was in movies. Unfortunately, fans who took the epitaph too seriously trashed his gravesite so often that the body had to be moved to a nearby grave that wasn’t marked.
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