10 cemeteries you’ll never regret visiting

A row of headstones at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, looking toward downtown San Diego. Read more.

Volunteers place flags at graves of veterans for Memorial Day at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. Read more.

A grave marker at Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana. The Colón Cemetery was founded in 1876. Read more.

Havana’s huge Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón is named for Christopher Columbus, but he wasn’t buried in it. It is crowded with memorial sculptures and architectural fantasies. Because generation after generation may be interred in the same tomb, the place is full of family stories. Read more.

A view of Richmond, Va., from the Hollywood Cemetery. Read more.

Ancient live oak trees draped with Spanish moss surround graves at Bonaventure Cemetery, the titular location of the book and film “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” in Savannah, Ga. Read more.

View of the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale. Read more.

Acacia Garden in Glendale’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Read more.

Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale was founded in 1906. Read more.

A little mermaid statue crouches near Walt Disney’s tomb at Forest Lawn in Glendale. Read more.

A Mickey Mouse trinket adorns a tree near Walt Disney’s resting spot at Forest Lawn in Glendale. Read more.

The Declaration of Independence mosaic at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. The distinctive cemetery is home to several enormous pieces of art. Read more.

An American flag blows on a windy day at a gravesite in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Read more.

Church of the Recessional at Forest Lawn in Glendale. Read more.

A windy path in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Read more.

View of the Shrine of Love in front of the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn in Glendale. Read more. Read the main story here.