If someone told you that one of Kentucky’s most spectacular gardens requires you to visit a cemetery, you’d probably think they were pulling your leg, but the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington is about to change your entire perspective on burial grounds.
This place is what happens when landscape architects, horticulturists, and visionaries get together and decide that cemeteries should be beautiful enough to visit even when you don’t know anyone buried there.
The result is 170 acres of pure, jaw-dropping gorgeousness that just happens to include headstones and monuments.
When you first arrive at the Lexington Cemetery, your brain might need a moment to process what you’re seeing, because this doesn’t match any cemetery you’ve ever visited…