Via Atlas Obscura
When one visits New Orleans the sense of history is palpable… for the living and the dead.
Due to the Sea Level or below nature of the Big Easy, getting buried was entirely above board –or at least above ground.
Ornate and festooned cemeteries provide a stony history of the city’s residents. Clues to what these places tell us in New Orleans and elsewhere rests, perhaps eternally rests, with the symbols chosen to embellish eternity.