Visitors to the Crown Hill Cemetry, the third largest cemetery in the country, consisting of more than 555 acres and 25 miles of paved road, are more likely to be enchanted than scared. For this city cemetery, the final resting place of over 190,000 people, is a splendid example of Victorian era cemetery art and a bucolic resting place of grassy hills and wandering pathways.

It also is a who's who of famous people, being the final earthly stop of such famous – and infamous – personalities as President Benjamin Harrison (his internment was one of the largest ever held), Colonel Eli Lilly (resting in a magnificent arched mausoleum surrounded by shrubbery), Booth Tarkington (author of The Magnificent Ambersons), automobile baron Frederick Duesenberg, Kurt Vonnegut's grandfather Bernard, a noted Indianapolis architect and John Dillinger as well as a host of others including 11 Indiana governors, 1 Kentucky governor, 14 Indiana mayors, 13 Civil War generals and 1616 Confederate prisoners of war, who were originally buried in City Cemetery and then moved, in 1931 here.