One of Brooklyn’s most beautiful landscapes is not a park or a water view. It’s a cemetery. Greenwood was founded in 1838 and soon became THE place to be buried. It was actually the tourist destination that inspired Olmsted and Vaux to create those other city parks.

So who resides at Greenwood?  Charles Ebbets (he of the field), The Steinways of piano fame, Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Frank Morgan (THE Wizard of Oz) to name a few.

The cemetery is nearly 500 acres of historic stones, structures and gorgeous landscape. You can totally visit on your own or you can take a trolly tour every Wednesday at 1pm. This Friday, historian Ben Feldman gives a free talk on the various stories involved with the property. It’s followed by a trolly tour. All tours are $15.

Disclosure: Keats and Yeats are not buried at Greenwood Cemetery.