I was told I should visit more European cemeteries, so when I had a chance two weeks ago in Edinburgh, I took it.

The mausolea in Edinburgh are fascinating; they do not have roofs like in America, and the graves then are on the ground inside.  Take, for example, the famous philosopher David Hume’s mausoleum below.

I found this monument to Scots who fought and died in the American Civil War fascinating, and unique.