Elvis, JFK, Evita... The most visited graves and tombs in the world

Elvis's tomb is outside his mansion in Graceland, a pilgrimage site located in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. It receives an estimated 650,000 visits per year.

In the town of Arlington, Virginia, is a large cemetery filled with great American personalities who gave their lives for the homeland. There you can also find JFK and his brother Robert Kennedy.

Evita was a political leader in Argentina and many years later - with 'Don't Cry for me, Argentina' - a pop icon through Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. Evita Perón's died in 1952. Her body was stolen by the Argentine military to avoid being worshipped. In 1976 she was buried in the Buenos Aires cemetery of Recoleta, and there she has received thousands of visits ever since.

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Bruce Lee, the martial arts film icon, was born in Hong Kong. His remains rest in the Seattle Lake View cemetery, however. He has his son Brandon Lee at his side. Brandon also died tragically at a young age.

Writer Oscar Wilde's tomb shines thanks to the kisses people have given the stone. He is in the Parisian cemetery of Père-Lachaise. A protective glass has been placed over the monument to protect it from the enthusiasm of his admirers.

The remains of Marilyn Monroe rest in one of the cemeteries where many Hollywood celebrities have their graves. Trom Natalie Wood to Burt Lancaster, Billy Wilder, Gene Kelly, James Coburn, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jack Lemmon... They're all in the same place.

Here lies the faithful dog whose story made Hollywood history with Richard Gere as the protagonist. His grave is in a Tokyo cemetery, not far from Shibuya station where he waited for his master for years.

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Another illustrious person of the many who rest in the cemetery of Père-Lachaise in Paris. The singer of The Doors died in 1971 at the age of 27 in the capital of the Seine. His grave is a place of pilgrimage for fans who sing, leave bottles of bourbon, and mourn the poet who composed the fabulous 'The End.'

Highgate Cemetery in London is a beautiful resting place where, in addition to Karl Marx, other celebrities are resting, such as the writer George Eliot or the painter Lucian Freud.

The AC/DC singer died in 1980 on a drunken night that exceeded his limits. His origins were Scottish but his heart was 100% Australian and so he was buried in the Fremantle cemetery.

The author of 'Metamorphosis' rests in the new Jewish cemetery in Prague. He died before the Nazi horror. Together with the writer lie the remains of his father and three sisters, murdered in Hitler's extermination camps.

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The famous ocean liner sank in waters off the Canadian coast and many victims' bodies were buried in Halifax.

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Although the figure of drug trafficker Pablo Escobar brought enormous suffering to Latin America, people visit his grave either by curiosity or some kind of strange admiration. The series 'Narcos' has contributed to making this tomb in Medellín, Colombia a tourist attraction.

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On Shakespeare's tomb is an epitaph that the author himself wrote: "Good friend, by Jesus refrain from digging in the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man who respects these stones and cursed be he who removes these bones."

The great voice of the French 'chanson' has her grave (of course) in the Parisian cemetery of Père-Lachaise.

The remains of the great African-American civil rights leader were moved to this cemetery in the state of Georgia in 1977. He had been assassinated in 1968.

In Paris, where he died, lies the body of composer Chopin. However, as he himself stipulated, Chopin's heart was extracted and rests in the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, in his native country.

The great composer was first buried in the Viennese cemetery in Währing, but in 1888 he was transferred to his final tomb.

Napoleon lies in a historic imperial tomb. One of the most beautiful mausoleums.

A humble grave in a cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. This is the place where the author of 'Little Women' rests.

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A mausoleum in the purest style of old communism. It holds the remains of Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary Vietnamese leader who defied the United States in a war that marked an entire, twentieth-century generation.

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The British ruler rests in the place reserved for his aristocratic family. It is located on the grounds of St Martin's church.

Another example of a communist mausoleum. As in the case of Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong's body was turned into a mummy.

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The Protestant cemetery in Rome is also called "the cemetery of the poets." Great writers like John Keats, Percy Shelley, and Gregory Corso are buried there - as well as Antonio Gramsci, a fundamental thinker of the twentieth century and founder of the Italian Communist Party.

He was the first communist leader and marked a funerary trend. His body was mummified and exposed in a mausoleum on the Red Square.

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The leader of India's independence was cremated as the country's tradition commands. At the place where Gandhi was incinerated, a simple marble tombstone stands in honor of his legacy.

Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City by order of Stalin. He was also buried there. Trotsky's figure is still a cult object and his political ideas continue to be seconded by thousands of people all over the world.

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