Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

See where the legend that spawned a Johnny Depp chiller all began.

by Contributor at Citysearch

In Short
About as spooky-looking a cemetery as they come, Sleepy Hollow was a popular hangout for the somber 19th century literary set, who liked to walk together in its eerie quiet. No surprise then that so many of them were eventually buried here: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. Now the cemetery paths that the authors once strolled are filled with English majors on pilgrimage.