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Category Archives: Famous person’s grave
Cemetery of the Week #173: the Crypt of Our Lady of the Angels
The Cathedral Mausoleum at Our Lady of the AngelsAlso known as the Crypt of the LA Cathedral or the Saint Vibiana Chapel MausoleumAddress: 555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, California 90012Phone: 213-680-5200Dedicated: September 2002Number interred: 395, according to Findagrave Note: … Continue reading
Resting Places of Horror Film Icons, Part Two
Many of our literary forebears have monuments we can visit, where we can thank them for their inspiration. (Check my cemetery column here for details.) Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of many of our favorite horror movie actors and … Continue reading
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Resting Places of Horror Film Icons, Part One
In my other life, outside the cemetery, I write horror stories. Many of horror’s literary forebears have monuments we can visit, where we can thank them for their inspiration. I’ve written about them before: https://cemeterytravel.com/2013/10/28/horror-writers-on-cemetery-travel/ Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of … Continue reading
Death’s Garden: Paris’s Secret Cemetery
by Erika Mailman I’m not sure when it first dawned on me to wonder what happened to the corpses of all the people guillotined during the French Revolution. It seemed unlikely authorities would permit families to take the bodies home … Continue reading
Death’s Garden: Lenin’s Mausoleum
by Melodie Bolt In January 1988, I stood in Red Square with thirty American college students watching Lenin’s Honor Guard change. The replacement soldiers exited the Kremlin gate and moved parallel to the Kremlin wall. The duo marched in long … Continue reading
