Cave Hill Cemetery, opened in 1848, is one of the great rural-style Victorian cemeteries of the United States — 296 acres of rolling hills, lakes, and mature trees that function as both a historic burial ground and one of the city's finest public parks. The landscape design follows the naturalistic English style that Frederick Law Olmsted later popularised, with winding paths and deliberately informal planting.
The cemetery is the final resting place of around 250 notable Louisvillians, including Colonel Harland Sanders (founder of KFC, buried in a plain suit) and Muhammad Ali, who chose Cave Hill over the national cemetery he was offered and whose grave draws a steady stream of visitors. The cemetery is freely open to the public during daylight hours; a printed map available at the gatehouse helps locate the notable monuments and graves.