Resold, reused Statues of mourning angels and grieving children line the streets. The architecture includes tombs with beautiful stained glass windows, modeled after churches, pyramids, Roman shrines and Islamic palaces. The distinctive art recently led to a scheme to steal urns, statues and other artifacts and sell them to collectors. A prominent antiques dealer and four others received jail time for the venture. Tombs are sometimes resold, Briede said.
Visitors still flock to see the statue of a woman with an arm extended to the tomb's door.
Legend has it that the statue represented one of the many women Arlington welcomed to her brothel. Tombs in Louisiana are also reused. State law allows the remains to be removed from the casket a year and a day after the death. They can then be deposited in a special cache in the tomb, the old coffin discarded and the space reused. They're really practical.