Covering over 400 acres of land in memorials and gravestones, the Woodlawn Cemetery is widely known as one of the largest cemeteries in New York City.
Tucked inside its rolling hills and along its tree-lined roads are picturesque gravestones, memorials and mausoleums that run the gamut of architectural styles: From the Art Nouveau stylings of Isidor Straus' tomb to the Egyptian Modern mausoleum of Wilfred Woolworth, the cemetery is as much a standing history of architecture as it is a home for the dead.
Stretching back to the cemetery's founding in 1863, this accumulation of different monuments over the years has resulted in a space as varied as the 300,000 people that call it their final resting place.
From the family mausoleums of New York's richest residents, to the victims of the 1918 flu epidemic, celebrites and criminals alike rest in the large cemetery. Joseph Pulitzer and Miles Davis share Woodlawn with Ruth Brown Snyder, the first female to be executed by electric chair for murdering her husband.
Other notable memorials include the Annie Bliss Titanic memorial, dedicated to the victims of the RMS Titanic disaster of 1912. There is also the Belmont mausoleum, a scale replica of Da Vinci's Chapel of Saint-Hubert that holds the body of Oliver Belmont, founder of the Belmont Horse Track. Famous journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (better known as Nellie Bly), is also buried here.