Marilyn Monroe – Cimetière Westwood Village Memorial Park (Los Angeles)

The remains of the iconic Marilyn Monroe rest in one of the cemeteries that houses the most Hollywood celebrities: from Natalie Wood to Burt Lancaster via Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly, James Coburn, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jack Lemmon…

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Elvis Presley – Graceland (USA)

Elvis’ grave is at his villa in Graceland, a place of pilgrimage in Memphis, Tennessee. It receives approximately 650,000 annual visits.

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Eva Peron – Cimetière de la Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentine)

Eva was a political leader in Argentina and became, in spite of herself and many years later, a pop star thanks to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical (“Don’t cry for me, Argentina”). Eva died in 1952 and it was not until 1976 that she was buried in the Recoleta cemetery. Once the damage was repaired, his grave received thousands of visits.

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Bruce Lee – Lake View Cemetery (Seattle, USA)

The martial arts movie icon was born in Hong Kong but his remains rest in a cemetery in Seattle. His son Brandon Lee, who died tragically very young, rests next to him.

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Oscar Wilde – Pere Lachaise Cemetery (Paris, France)

This is how, with the marks of kisses on the stone, the tomb of the writer Oscar Wilde appears in the Père-Lachaise cemetery. Today, a protective glass prevents the funerary monument from deteriorating due to the passage of fervent admirers of the author of ‘The Importance of Being Constant’ (1895).

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Hachikō – Aoyama Cemetery (Japan)

The faithful dog, whose story has become universal thanks to Hollywood, with Richard Gere as the protagonist, has his grave in a cemetery in Tokyo, near Shibuya station, where he waited for his master for years.

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Jim Morrison – Pere Lachaise Cemetery (Paris, France)

Another illustrious grave, in the Père-Lachaise cemetery, is that of the singer of the Doors, who died in Paris in 1971 at only 27 years old. It is a place of pilgrimage for his fans who sing and mourn the interpreter of ‘The End’.

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Karl Marx – Highgate Cemetery (Londres, Royaume-Uni)

Highgate Cemetery in London is a lovely resting place where not only Karl Marx is buried but also other celebrities such as writer George Eliot or painter Lucian Freud.

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Bon Scott – Fremantle Cemetery (Australie)

The AC/DC singer died in 1980 during a very alcoholic night, marked by excesses of all kinds. His origins are Scottish but his heart was 100% Australian. That’s why he was buried in Fremantle Cemetery.

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Franz Kafka – New Jewish Cemetery in Prague (Czech Republic)

The author of “The Metamorphosis” is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague. He died of tuberculosis, before the rise of the Nazi horror. Next to him lie the remains of his father and three sisters, later murdered in concentration camps.

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Carlos Gardel – Cimetière de la Chacarita (Buenos Aires, Argentine)

It is said that Carlos Gardel “sings a little better every day” and we continue to pay tribute to him at the Argentine cemetery of La Chacarita.

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Victims of the sinking of the Titanic – Fairview Cemetery (Halifax, Canada)

The Titanic sank in waters near Halifax in Canada, and this place was therefore chosen to pay tribute to the victims.

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Pablo Escobar – Montesacro Gardens Cemetery (Medellin, Colombia)

Although the figure of the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar caused enormous suffering in Latin America, his tomb is visited both by the curious and by those who have a strange admiration for him. The ‘Narcos’ series has largely contributed to this, transforming this tomb into a real tourist attraction.

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William Shakespeare – Church of the Holy Trinity (Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)

On Shakespeare’s tomb can be read the epitaph written by the author himself: “My friend, for the Saviour’s sake refrain from digging up the dust laid upon me. Blessed is the man who will spare these stones, but cursed be he who violates my ossuary”.

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Frederic Chopin – Pere Lachaise Cemetery (Paris, France)

The body of the composer rests in Paris where he died. But, according to his own demands, his heart was extracted from it and rests in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, in his hometown.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy – Arlington National Cemetery (United States)

In Arlington, in the state of Virginia, there is a cemetery where great American personalities who gave their lives for the country are buried. This is the case of JFK and his brother, Bobby Kennedy.

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Edith Piaf – Pere Lachaise Cemetery (Paris, France)

The great voice of French song has his grave in the Parisian cemetery of Père-Lachaise. It might not be otherwise !

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Martin Luther King – National Historical Park (Georgia, USA)

The remains of the great civil rights leader of the African-American population, assassinated in 1968, were transported to this monument in 1977.

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Ludwing van Beethoven – Central Cemetery (Vienne, Autriche)

The great composer was first buried in Vienna’s Währing cemetery, but in 1888 he was moved to his final grave.

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Napoleon Bonaparte – Les Invalides (Paris, France)

An imperial tomb for history. One of the most beautiful mausoleums.

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Louisa Mary Alcott – Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (États-Unis)

A humble grave in a city cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. This is the resting place of the author of “The Four Daughters of Doctor March”.

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Ho Chi Minh – Hano (Vietnam)

A mausoleum, worthy of old communism, preserves the remains of Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese revolution. He is the one who defeated the United States in a war that marked an entire generation in the 1960s.

Photo : Shi Zhao / Wikimedia Commons

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Mahatma Gandhi – Raj Gaht (New Delhi, Inde)

The Indian independence leader was cremated as is the tradition of his country. Gandhi’s tombstone is very simple, made of marble.

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Winston Churchill – St Martin’s Church (Bladon, UK)

The British head of state rests in a place reserved for his aristocratic family, within the church of St Martin.

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John Keats – Protestant cemetery in Rome (Italy)

The Protestant cemetery in Rome is nicknamed the “cemetery of the poets”. It is home to great authors such as John Keats, Percy Shelley, Gregory Corso… and Antonio Gramsci, fundamental thinker of the 20th century and founder of the Italian Communist Party.

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Leon Trotsky – Trostky House Museum in Mexico City (Mexico)

Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City on Stalin’s orders where he was buried. His figure is still a cult object and his political ideas continue to fascinate thousands of people around the world.

Photo : Gunther Schenk

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Johnny Hallyday – Cemetery of Lorient, Saint-Barthélemy

The most “rock’n’roll” of French singers, Johnny Hallyday, is buried in the Lorient cemetery in Saint-Barthélemy. Groups of visitors regularly come to his grave to greet him who marked an entire generation.

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