Have you ever wondered how your loved ones remember you after death? Or where and in what kind of tombstones are you buried? Few people think about or plan for these questions. These people believe that their gravestones can represent beliefs and cultures and reflections on their lives, as well as a means to remember them. In the following, we will discuss some of these people and strange gravestones in the world.

The tombstone belongs to a 10-year-old girl named Florence, who died of yellow fever in 1871. When the girl died, her mother placed a few steps behind her grave, a small window leading to the top of the girl’s coffin, to be closer to her child—the glass window of the tomb covered with concrete several years later to prevent possible vandalism.

This strange tombstone belongs to a Korean war veteran (Lester C. Madden) who, because of his intense interest in the famous Jaws film by Steven Spielberg, under a large white shark-shaped tombstone that symbolizes the Jaws movie, is buried. This strange tombstone is located in the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, which has attracted a lot of tourists.

The Kiss of Death is a marble statue on the grave of a textile manufacturer in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. The ‌sculpture depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton with a kiss on the forehead of a beautiful young man.

An underwater cemetery belongs to forty religious soldiers who have drowned in this place. Each of these crosses belongs to one of them. This monument was built in 2000 in Tazacorte, Spain.

This strange and magnificent tomb belongs to the people of Lycia, Turkey. The ancient people of Lycia believed that their dead were transferred from the sky to heaven after death by angels. For this reason, to facilitate this, the dead were placed on high cliffs and mountains. The tombs, many of which date back to the 4th century, are protected by massive entrances decorated with tall Romanesque columns and intricate reliefs. The interior consists of chambers cut into simple stones to display the body despite the exterior grandeur.

One of the strangest tombstones in the world is the BMW car you see in the picture below. This car is actually the tombstone of a person who was a fan of cars. When he dies, his family decides to choose a monument in the shape of his favourite BMW M3 convertible. Weighing one ton, the BMW sculpture had to be lowered onto the grave by a crane in operation involving 20 people. It cost around £50,000. This sculpture is made of granite.

An interesting tombstone belongs to Fernand Arbelot, a musician, actor, and architect. This man is remembered for his only wish in death to stare at his wife’s face forever. Therefore, according to this will, the tombstone is made by a Belgian sculptor. Behind the design of this strange tombstone is a story that says he killed his wife and committed suicide, although this claim has not been confirmed. He reportedly died during the Nazi occupation of Paris.

Tomb of Lilly E. Gray in Salt Lake City; The appearance of this tomb may not be as strange as other tombs. What makes it famous and bizarre is the sentence on the tombstone: “victim of the beast 666”. This sentence led people to make horror stories about it for years. Eventually, however, it became clear that his wife had been imprisoned for many reasons, and this was not to Lily’s liking. She did not consider her husband deserving of imprisonment.

Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband were not allowed to be buried together. After being married for 38 years, the colonel died in 1880 and was buried on the protestant part of the cemetery against the wall. His wife died in 1888 and had decided not to be buried in the family tomb, but the closest she could get to her husband on the other side of the wall. Two clasped hands connect the graves across the wall.

You will find this colorful tombstone among the Victorian tombs and granite tombstones of Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. This tombstone with a height of about 1.5 meters is known as Ricardo cat and is decorated with colored tiles.

Artist Niki de Saint Phalle created this unusual tombstone for his assistant, Ricardo Menon, who died in 1989 at 37. The inscription on the cat’s foot reads: “In memory of our friend, the young and lovely Ricardo, who died very soon.”