Lake View Cemetery
Seattle, Washington, United States
The Seattle cemetery holding Bruce and Brandon Lees graves, the site of a continuous international pilgrimage of flags, flowers, coins, and letters.
Lake View Cemetery on Capitol Hill holds the graves of Bruce Lee and his son Brandon, and the graves are a site of continuous international pilgrimage: visitors from every continent leave flowers, coins, notes, martial arts belts, and the cemetery's own materials acknowledge the flow. The Lee graves are among the most-visited private graves in the world, and the devotion has practices of its own, leaving the coin, the folded note, the moment of silence in the stance of a martial artist.
The cemetery is otherwise a classic early Seattle burial ground on a hill above the city's first water system; the pilgrimage sits inside a working cemetery, and the caretakers have learned to keep both running.
Visiting
1554 15th Ave E, Seattle; open daily; see lakeviewcemeteryassociation.com.
Photo: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_and_Brandon_Lee_graves_02.jpg), CC BY-SA.
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