Automatism Press Wish you were here: adventures in cemetery travel, paperback/loren rhoads

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Nearly every tourist destination has a graveyard.

Yosemite National Park has a graveyard.

The Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park: both graveyards.

The #1 tourist destination in Michigan has three cemeteries.

America's best-preserved Gold Rush ghost town has five.

Gettysburg is a National Park because it has a graveyard.

Some graveyards are even tourist destinations in themselves: the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague, the colonial burying grounds of Boston, and Kennedy's eternal flame in Arlington National Cemetery.

Jim Morrison's grave in P re Lachaise Cemetery ranks in the top five tourist sites of Paris and draws a million visitors a year.

Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel contains 35 graveyard travel essays, which visit more than 50 cemeteries, churchyards, and grave sites around the world.

About the Author: Over the past two and a half decades, Loren Rhoads has visited literally hundreds of graveyards.

She is the author of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die.

She edited the books Death's Garden: Relationships with Cemeteries and Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues.

Now she blogs about graveyards as travel destinations at Cemetery Travel.