Books by Author Loren Rhoads

Loren Rhoads, 2024

Perfect for budding cemetery armchair travelers and for serious taphophiles, this hauntingly beautiful guide to the world's most interesting and unusual cemeteries has been revised and updated to include 23 additional locations. Whether you are a cemetery enthusiast who seeks out obscure locations or a tourist who likes to incorporate not-to-be-missed cemeteries like Tokyo's Zoshigaya into your itinerary, 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die is both a useful trip-planning tool and a browser's delight.

Loren Rhoads, 2017

Nearly every tourist destination has or is a graveyard. Jim Morrison’s grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery ranks in the top five tourist sites of Paris and draws a million visitors a year. America’s best-preserved Gold Rush ghost town has five cemeteries. The Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park: both graveyards. Some graveyards are even tourist destinations in themselves: the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague, the colonial burying grounds of Boston, and Kennedy’s eternal flame in Arlington National Cemetery. Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel contains 35 graveyard travel essays, which visit more than 50 cemeteries, churchyards, and grave sites around the world.

Loren Rhoads, 2022

Genealogists and geocachers, travelers and tour guides, anthropologists, historians, pagan priestesses, and ghost hunters all venture into cemeteries in these essays. Along the way, they discover that cemeteries don’t only provide a rewarding end to a pilgrimage, they can be the perfect location for a first date or a wedding, the highlight of a family vacation, a cure for depression, and the best possible place to grasp history. Death’s Garden Revisited collects 40 powerful personal essays — accompanied by full-color photographs — to illuminate the reasons people visit cemeteries.