Finding a specific grave in most cemeteries can be like finding a needle in a haystack.

They're rows and rows of stones that look essentially the same.

But even in the most mundane cemetery, they're always a couple of ornate grave markers.

Beautiful statues or unique sculptures.

I've been to a cemetery that's full of those kind of grave stones.

There's a stone race car. There's a giant soccer ball. There's beautiful details everywhere.

It's a sculpture garden, but it's also a cemetery. The cemetery created by and for masterstone

cutters and sculptors. I'm David Plott's and this is Atlas Obscura,

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible and wondrous places.

Today we're heading up to Hope Cemetery in Barry Vermont, where sculptors are buried

under the ornate tombstones they carved for themselves.

After this.

It's the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. People from all over the world are flocking to the city

to see the most exciting developments in technology and culture.

You've got the original Ferris wheel, the first movie theater,

and tucked amid all these wonders and inventions, there's a small booth paid for by the

Barry Granite Association. That's B-A-R-R-E pronounced Barry.

Now for a lot of people, Granite might not be the most memorable thing at the World's Fair,

but for stone cutters, the granite from Barry was a world class. The reputation of Barry's

granites spread across the globe and soon the little town in Vermont began to attract stone cutters

from Europe, especially Italy. Today, fewer than 10,000 people live in Barry,

but Hope Cemetery is still bursting with the town's creative heritage.

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