Bonaventure Cemetery

The Bonaventure Cemetery was made famous in the 1994 book "Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil" by John Berendt (a great book I'd highly recommend to everyone out there!).  The cover of the book featured a statue from the cemetery nicknamed the "Bird Girl".  Today, the statue has been moved to the Telfair Museum of Art due to the amount of tourists the cemetery started receiving.  As this is still an actively used cemetery, the tourists began interfering with mourners and thus the statue was moved.

The cemetery is open to visitors every day from 8 AM to 5 PM and there is no admission charge.  You can see graves dating from back in the mid-1800's all the way through to today.  When visiting, it's interesting to see graves of yesteryear as many of them also commemorate people who died in the various wars of America.  Be sure though to be respectful of the graves you visit while you there and anyone else who is visiting.