World's Greatest Cemeteries

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty and tour a National Historic Landmark. New York’s Woodlawn Cemetery is the final resting place of legends — Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Bat Masterson, Celia Cruz, Dorothy Parker, Miles Davis, Jokichi Takamine and Irving Berlin. Gilded age monuments, towering mausoleums, modern sculptures and exquisite landscaping

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at historic Laurel Hill and bucolic West Laurel Hill cemeteries near Philadelphia. Laurel Hill is America’s second major rural garden cemetery, on bluffs overlooking the scenic Schuylkill River. We explore the famed Medallion Garden. Interments include jazz saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr., Civil War General

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at legendary St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, in New Orleans! The town, known for mardi gras, jazz and great cuisine, is home to this Catholic cemetery with multicultural roots. We learn about Asian immigration, and tombs include the “witch” Madame Marie Laveau; civil rights activist

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati. A reenactor portrays Civil War Medal of Honor winner David Urbanski. We learn the story of food manufacturer Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz, and interpret traditional Jewish funerary iconography. Includes a look at 19th century immigration from Germany, three branches

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at this must-see for book lovers and history buffs! Concord’s Sleepy Hollow Cemetery boasts “Author’s Ridge” — with Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and more! Also, a side trip to Walden Pond, historical reenactments, and a surprise for

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY — a 300-acre arboretum, birding space, gardening gem and historic burial ground. Interments include boxer and humanitarian Muhammad Ali, Colonel Harland Sanders, Suffragist Susan Look Avery and Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. A reenactor portrays Sculptor Enid

Host Roberto Mighty brings us inspiring stories from beyond the grave! This special episode of World’s Greatest Cemeteries digs into the lives of fascinating historical figures from London, Paris, New York, California, Cincinnati and Boston. A Chinese-American woman aviator, a dashing French author, a British musician, a family of

Host Roberto Mighty explores Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum — the 3rd largest cemetery in the USA and a National Historic Landmark. Experts show Champion Trees and check out water features. Historical Reenactments: Feminist firebrand Frances Wright; Abolitionist Levi Coffin and Landscape Architect Adolph Strauch. Visit the monument of formerly enslaved

Host Roberto Mighty explores the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, visiting monuments and lives of screen/music legend Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Johnny Ramone, Herb Jeffries (“The Bronze Buckaroo”); Hattie McDaniel, the first African American woman to win an Oscar; Mel Blanc, the voice of “Bugs Bunny” and other beloved cartoon characters;

Brooklyn’s 478-acre Green-Wood Cemetery is a National Historic Landmark. Host Roberto Mighty and experts explore landscape, glacial ponds and paths containing one of the largest outdoor collections of 19th and 20th-century statuary and mausoleums. Roberto visits the lives of composer Leonard Bernstein; modern artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; and Civil War

London’s Highgate Cemetery contains some of the finest funerary architecture in Great Britain. Host Roberto Mighty shares Victorian-era attractions and visits the lives of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy; Mary Ann Evans/”George Eliot”, author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch; Black World War I

Mount Auburn Cemetery, founded in 1831, contains stunning landscapes, monuments and gardens drawing over 200,000 visitors per year. Host Roberto Mighty explores the lives of Dorothea Dix, a pioneering advocate for the mentally ill; and Edmonia Lewis, a renowned African-American/Native-American sculptor. Reenactments: escaped slave-turned philanthropist, a medical student’

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty and tour a National Historic Landmark. New York’s Woodlawn Cemetery is the final resting place of legends — Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Bat Masterson, Celia Cruz, Dorothy Parker, Miles Davis, Jokichi Takamine and Irving Berlin. Gilded age monuments, towering mausoleums, modern sculptures and exquisite landscaping

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at historic Laurel Hill and bucolic West Laurel Hill cemeteries near Philadelphia. Laurel Hill is America’s second major rural garden cemetery, on bluffs overlooking the scenic Schuylkill River. We explore the famed Medallion Garden. Interments include jazz saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr., Civil War General

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at legendary St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, in New Orleans! The town, known for mardi gras, jazz and great cuisine, is home to this Catholic cemetery with multicultural roots. We learn about Asian immigration, and tombs include the “witch” Madame Marie Laveau; civil rights activist

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati. A reenactor portrays Civil War Medal of Honor winner David Urbanski. We learn the story of food manufacturer Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz, and interpret traditional Jewish funerary iconography. Includes a look at 19th century immigration from Germany, three branches

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at this must-see for book lovers and history buffs! Concord’s Sleepy Hollow Cemetery boasts “Author’s Ridge” — with Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and more! Also, a side trip to Walden Pond, historical reenactments, and a surprise for

Join Host/Producer Roberto Mighty at beautiful Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, KY — a 300-acre arboretum, birding space, gardening gem and historic burial ground. Interments include boxer and humanitarian Muhammad Ali, Colonel Harland Sanders, Suffragist Susan Look Avery and Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. A reenactor portrays Sculptor Enid

Host Roberto Mighty brings us inspiring stories from beyond the grave! This special episode of World’s Greatest Cemeteries digs into the lives of fascinating historical figures from London, Paris, New York, California, Cincinnati and Boston. A Chinese-American woman aviator, a dashing French author, a British musician, a family of

Host Roberto Mighty explores Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum — the 3rd largest cemetery in the USA and a National Historic Landmark. Experts show Champion Trees and check out water features. Historical Reenactments: Feminist firebrand Frances Wright; Abolitionist Levi Coffin and Landscape Architect Adolph Strauch. Visit the monument of formerly enslaved

Host Roberto Mighty explores the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, visiting monuments and lives of screen/music legend Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Johnny Ramone, Herb Jeffries (“The Bronze Buckaroo”); Hattie McDaniel, the first African American woman to win an Oscar; Mel Blanc, the voice of “Bugs Bunny” and other beloved cartoon characters;

Brooklyn’s 478-acre Green-Wood Cemetery is a National Historic Landmark. Host Roberto Mighty and experts explore landscape, glacial ponds and paths containing one of the largest outdoor collections of 19th and 20th-century statuary and mausoleums. Roberto visits the lives of composer Leonard Bernstein; modern artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; and Civil War

London’s Highgate Cemetery contains some of the finest funerary architecture in Great Britain. Host Roberto Mighty shares Victorian-era attractions and visits the lives of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy; Mary Ann Evans/”George Eliot”, author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch; Black World War I

Mount Auburn Cemetery, founded in 1831, contains stunning landscapes, monuments and gardens drawing over 200,000 visitors per year. Host Roberto Mighty explores the lives of Dorothea Dix, a pioneering advocate for the mentally ill; and Edmonia Lewis, a renowned African-American/Native-American sculptor. Reenactments: escaped slave-turned philanthropist, a medical student’