New Orleans, Louisiana

Burial or Cremation?  If you are going to be buried, one possibility is to be buried above ground. The most famous city for above-ground burials (though one wonders if the word burial is correctly applied here) is New Orleans, where the city's cemeteries have become star tourist attractions. The person buried in this vault was Étienne Boré, the first appointed mayor of New Orleans when the French acquired Louisiana from Spain, and the first mayor of New Orleans when the United States purchased Louisiana from France. St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. [2014]