, here's five of the most talked over memorial headstones.
The Marine Corps war memorial is found in Arlington, Virginia. It is dedicated to all the personnel of the US Marine Corps who died in the defence of their country. Sculpted from a photo taken by Joe Rosenthal at the battle of the Iwo Jima this memorial remembers the marines and sailors who raised the 2nd flag over Iwo Jima from which only 3 of the 6 men depicted here survived the battle.
Charlie Chaplin suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma and finally died on Christmas day aged 88. A private burial occurred at a cemetery nearby Chaplin's manor in Vevey, Switzerland. A few months after his burial his body and coffin were removed from the cemetery and held to ransom. The Coffin and body were found 3 months later buried in a cornfield and returned to the cemetery. Memorial statues have gone up everywhere around the world to remember this great talent including the one in this photo in Vevey, Switzerland.
The Moai on Easter Island were built as memorials to worshipped ancestors. It was believed that the dead and the living had a linked existence with the dead providing everything the living needed (health, good crops, animals etc) and the living offering better resting places through offerings and memorials. A 15 number long Moai was excavated in the 1990's.
Christopher Columbus's voyages to the US rank among history's most import occasions and consequently the final resting place of such an important man is in great dispute with the Cathedral in Valladolid, Santo Domingo and the cathedral in Seville (left) all claiming to hold his remains.
Strawberry Fields in New York's central park is a 2.5 acre landscaped section dedicated in the memory of John Lennon. The center of attention of the park is a reproduction of a well known mosaic from Italy with a single word in the middle "Imagine", the title of Lennon's most well-known song.