Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - at over 280ha, reputedly the largest burial site in the Southern Hemisphere, first used in 1867.
Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists. Resting place of author Steele Rudd.
Waverly Cemetery (Sydney) - picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures.
Island of the dead - Pt Arthur Tasmania - early convict graves
Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of famous persons such as Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison and Frederic Chopin. Many French Holocaust victims are buried there.
Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as Arthur Honegger, Marcel Carné, Maurice Utrillo and others.
Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Skogskyrkogården, a relatively new cemetery opened in 1920 in southern Stockholm, has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amongst others, the cemetery contains the graves of actress Greta Garbo and rock musician Pelle Yngve Ohlin, .
Maidich National Cemetery - cemetery established after French occupation ended in 1954 as a place of worship for heroes of the people. Those buried here include statesmen, writers, poets, and others who have close ties to Vietnam's current government.
This is a list of famouscemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide.
Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where John Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried.
Punchbowl[?], Honolulu - military cemetery of the Pacific, in the Punchbowl Crater of an extinct volcano known as Puowaina, Hawaiian for "Hill of Sacrifice."
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