About Resting Places

Resting Places is a reference directory of the world's cemeteries. It treats burial grounds as places and history: where they are, when they were founded, what heritage status they hold, and which public figures rest there.

Where the data comes from

Every fact on this site is drawn from licensed open data and linked to its source record. Structured facts (2,443 cemeteries and their locations, dates, and interments) come from Wikidata, which publishes under the CC0 public domain dedication. Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and are shown only after their license has been individually verified as free. Fallback coordinates come from OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoder. We link out to Wikipedia articles for narrative history rather than reproducing their text.

Dignity and privacy rules

• Interment records cover notable public figures only: 11,526 people who have a Wikipedia article, a recorded death date, and a documented place of burial. We never build pages around private individuals or recent private burials.
• We never ingest, scrape, or republish content from genealogy services such as Find a Grave or BillionGraves. Where we link to them, it is a plain reference link.
• No photograph appears without a verified free license and inline credit. When rights are unclear, the page stays text-forward.
• Opening hours appear only when fetched live from an authoritative source, with a visible last-checked date. No live source, no hours.

What the classifications mean

Type and era tags are generated from each cemetery's recorded Wikidata classification, heritage status, and founding date. They are marked as machine-generated in the underlying data and have not yet been editorially reviewed one by one. When a record supports no tag, the entry stays untagged rather than being guessed at.

Corrections

The fastest way to fix an error is to correct the source record on Wikidata; this site rebuilds from those records. Each cemetery page links its Wikidata item under Records and sources.