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Adventure Travel with Mei-Mei
Offbeat album: final resting places
Mei-Mei and her husband Randy are fond of cemeteries and the stories they tell, and often seek out notable graves. The most star-studded they've found so far are:
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Pere Lachaise in Paris (Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Moliere, Gertrude Stein and more).
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San Croce Church in Florence (Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli and more)
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Westminster Abbey in London (Chaucer, Dickens, Kipling, Darwin) but no photos allowed.
The most beautiful cemetery they've seen is the Cimitero Acattolico in Northern Rome for "non-Catholics," with luscious flowers and sculptures.
 Beautiful cemetery at Varenna, Italy, overlooking Lake Como |  Mountaineer cemetery at Zermatt, Switzerland |  Beautiful cemetery in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland |
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 Oscar Wilde |  Gertrude Stein with Alice Toklas inscribed on the back |  Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas |
 Marie Curie, atop husband Pierre |  Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir together |  Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and Emile Zola all together |
 Chopin |  Voltaire |  Victor Hugo |
 Napoleon |  Jim Morrison, now fenced off |  Strongbow, who captured Dublin in 1170, at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. Unknown child next to him. |
 St. Patrick's grave is marked with a stone and plaque at Down Cathedral, Ireland, but his remains are likely beneath the cathedral. |  St. Patrick's grave is marked with a stone and plaque at Down Cathedral, Ireland, but his remains are likely beneath the cathedral. |  The spot where Jesus was crucified. Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem |
 The Resurrection Rotunda, where Jesus was buried and rose from the dead. Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulcher |  Jonathan Swift grave, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin |  William Butler Yeats grave, Drumcliff, Republic of Ireland |
 Chopin: Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris |  Winston Churchill (with wife Clementine), St Martin's Church, Bladon, England |  Michelangelo: Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy |
 Galileo: Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy |  Princess Grace: Monaco |  William Shakespeare: Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon |
 Beethovan: Zentralfriedhof, Vienna's main cemetery |  Jean-Paul Sartre, Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris |  Jean Seberg (actress born in Iowa), Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris |
 Franz Josef: Imperial Crypt in Vienna, Austria, beneath the Capuchin Church |  Jane Austin: Winchester Cathedral, England |  Evita Peron: La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
 Louis the 16th: Basilica of St Denis, north of Paris |  Marie Antoinette: Basilica of St Denis, north of Paris |  John Keats (unnamed on tombstone): Cimitero dei protestanti or the "non-Catholic cemetery, Rome. "Here lies one whose name was writ in water" his friends immortalized. |
 Percy Shelley: Cimitero dei protestanti or the "non-Catholic cemetery, Rome |  Mozart: St. Marx Cemetery, Vienna, Austria |  Columbus maybe? Seville Cathedral, Seville, Spain |
 Composer Georges Bizet: Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris |  Jackie Robinson: Cypress Hills cemetery, Brooklyn. (Remarkably, just a few plots from my grandmother and grandfather) |  Henrik Ibsen: Oslo, Norway Vår Frelsers gravlund |
 Edvard Munch ("The Scream"): Oslo, Norway VÃ¥r Frelsers gravlund |  Francisco Pizarro, who captured and killed the Incan king and founded Lima, Peru. |  Jimmy Stewart, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles |
 O'Henry (aka William Sidney Porter): Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina |  Thomas Wolfe ("Look Homeward Angel"): Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, North Carolina |  Charles Lindbergh: Maui, Hawaii |
 Robert F. Kennedy: Arlington Cemetery |  John F. Kennedy and Jackie Onassis: Arlington Cemetery |
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