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Calvary Cemetery
New York City, NY
Why you’re visiting: To see the millions of New Yorkers who actually do sleep
There’s more gray than green on these 365 acres of burial grounds that stretch across Queens. Aside from amazing vistas in which towering monuments appear to be extensions of the skyscrapers on the city’s skyline, the cemetery hosts the bodies of some of the builders and protectors who made the city what it is today. There’s also a huge contingency of mobsters buried here, and the grounds even served as a burial scene set in the thanGodfather.
THE 13 COOLEST CEMETERIES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE
Calvary Cemetery
New York City, NY
Why you’re visiting: To see the millions of New Yorkers who actually do sleep
There’s more gray than green on these 365 acres of burial grounds that stretch across Queens. Aside from amazing vistas in which towering monuments appear to be extensions of the skyscrapers on the city’s skyline, the cemetery hosts the bodies of some of the builders and protectors who made the city what it is today. There’s also a huge contingency of mobsters buried here, and the grounds even served as a burial scene set in the thanGodfather.