Cemeteries

Just for the heck of it, here are some photos of our cemeteries. Lafayette No. 1, in the Garden District, is one block off the St. Charles Ave. streetcar line. Metairie Cemetery is accessible from the Canal St. (i.e. 'Cemeteries') streetcar line. St. Louis No. 1, the oldest cemetery in the city and burial place of Marie Laveau, is just outside the French Quarter on Basin Street.

• The Brunswig pyramid in Metairie Cemetery
• One of the many benevolent societies' tombs in Metairie Cemetery
• This tomb is a favorite of local metal bands for their album covers and group portraits.
• Although one of the angels here is doing the classic goth hand stapled to forehead� gesture, she's doing it because of a fatal shipwreck.
• Everyone, but everyone, takes pictures of this angel when the tomb's doors are unlocked (which is a rare occasion).