Every summer people flock to Forest Hills, a beautiful 250-acre working cemetery established in 1848 and containing sculptures and modern works of art, for the annual Lantern Festival. During the Lantern Festival, a free event open to the public and inspired by Buddhist rituals, people can inscribe a lantern with a message to departed loved ones and float it across the cemetery's ornamental lake at sunset. Read more.

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Photo courtesy Forest Hills Trust