Literary lovers will want to flock to this Rockville, Maryland, cemetery to find the grave for one of the nation’s most famous authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his wife, Zelda. His family had roots in the D.C. area. Fitzgerald, best known for “The Great Gatsby,” died of a heart attack at 44. His tombstone has a memorable quote from that novel: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

It’s hard to cross this cemetery without seeing at least one famed person’s grave. St. Paul’s Rock Creek Church has published a lengthy list of their most notable, including “The Jungle” author Upton Sinclair, TV inventor Charles Truman Jenkins, former U.S. Chief Justice Harlon Fiske Stone, Constitution signatory Abraham Baldwin, and writer Gore Vidal.

The ashes of Helen Keller, the celebrated deaf-blind activist and author, are interred at the crypt of the Washington National Cathedral and adjacent to the remains of her teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy. In 1942, ex-President Woodrow Wilson was buried in the cathedral, the sixth largest in the world and the second largest in the U.S. The ashes of LGBTQ icon Matthew Shepard are also interred here.

Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, is one of many notables buried at Oak Hill Cemetery. Another: architect Adolph Cluss, who designed several D.C. buildings, including Eastern Market, the Franklin School, and the Charles Sumner School. The cemetery became more popular after the publication of George Saunders’s 2017 novel “Lincoln in the Bardo,” in which Abraham Lincoln visits his son Willie there.

Mary Surratt, one of this cemetery’s most famous occupants, is remembered as a convicted conspirator in President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the first woman executed by the U.S. government. Her former boardinghouse in Chinatown is now an Asian restaurant.

Established in 1807, the Congressional Cemetery includes the remains President John Quincy Adams and J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI. Also buried here: Leonard Matlovich, the first military member to publicly challenge the military’s ban on gay people. The cemetery’s Public Vault has hosted the remains of Presidents William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor as well as First Lady Dolley Madison.