Cemetery tourism, tomb tourism, graveyard tourism.

All of these names describe the same thing which is visiting cemetery like tourist. For those who hadn’t heard about cemetery tourism will have question why would anyone would want to see cemetery in their vacation.

Firstly, it could be the artwork why to visit some of cemeteries. Secondly, it could be the culture what attracts, as traditions associated with the funeral are very different in each country and learns you more about people culture in country you are visiting. Thirdly, people are interested to see famous people graves, but those are only few reasons. 

Arnos Vale cemetery in Bristol.

Those who look for unusual things cemeteries can surprise you as you could see lots of things you wouldn’t expect to see in cemetery, so keep your eyes open to see unusual as it’s easy to pass not noticing. One of the unusual could be even cemetery itself like the one in Egypt al Qarafa cemetery in Cairo. It’s a cemetery where people live together with death. It might not look like a cemetery in first spot to some of people, but there are lots of graves as it is cemetery. Unusual is that many people live there as they can’t afford to pay for place to live. So the cemetery had become a place to live for some of people.

Many times tourists without a doubt are visiting UNESCO objects so should take in mind that there are even cemeteries which is world heritage sites (UNESCO) like the one in Stockholm, Sweden "The Woodland Cemetery" or in Qufu, China "Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion". There are 32 different UNESCO cemeteries in world. You can see more about those cemeteries in UNESCO homepage.

Take in mind that some of them are in danger so should go there before it’s too late. But don’t think that it worth only to see UNESCO cemetery’s there are lots of cemetery’s which worth to see from not UNESCO list. So checks out before you go or when you are there at the tourist office centrum if there is one in city.

Other important things to take in mind are that in some cemetery’s you have to pay to get in an entrance fee. For some people that would sound shocking, but yes, sometimes you are asked even to pay money to get in to cemetery. In some more famous touristic cemetery’s there will be even guided tours. But that’s not all you can do as cemetery tourist.

If you are more in too visiting museums this could be more for you. There are different museums related to cemeteries. Some of cemeteries have their own museums, where you can get to know more of the cemetery you are visiting, but in some cities there are different kinds of museums for cemetery tourists. There are museums related to cemeteries in countries like Austria, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, UK and USA and many other countries.

So here is a small list on few museums for your exploration.

Mausoleum in Great cemetery in Riga.

                Austria.

                1. Funeral Museum in Vienna.

                Germany.

                1. Museum fuer Sepulkralkultur in Kassel.

                2. Museum of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg.

                Hungary.

                1. Piety museum in Budapest.

                Netherlands.

                1. Uitvaart Museum Tot Zover in Amsterdam.

                Portugal.

                1. Dispatch House in Porto.

                2. Jewish Cemetery & Isaac Bitton Museum in Faro.

                3. Cemetery Medival das barreiras in Fao.

                Spain.

                1. Museum de Carrosses Funebres in Barcelona.

                2. Museum de Laudas Gremiais in Noia.

                United Kingdom.

                1. The National Funeral Museum in London.

                2. National Ice Cream Death Museum in Derbyshire.

                USA.

                1. Museum of Death in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

But for those who still look for more suggestion is to look for symbolic meaning of things we see in cemeteries. In almost every cemetery you can find interesting symbolism, many of use wouldn’t think about it, but many things we see in cemetery have some meaning. I founded interesting to read more about the symbolical meaning in cemeteries in site graveaddiction under gravestone symbolism. The last I would like to mention is other useful site witch would help you find famous people graves if that’s what interests you in cemetery tourism. So check out site findagrave.