Cementerio Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis

Construction began in 1863, and when the cemetery outside the walls of Castillo San Felipe del Morro opened in 1865, the placement was deliberate: colonial Spanish authorities built it facing the Atlantic Ocean to symbolize the spirit's journey to the afterlife. That intention still holds. Among the most prominent natives and residents of Puerto Rico buried here are Pedro Albizu Campos, José Ferrer, and Rafael Hernández — a nationalist, an Academy Award-winning actor, a composer — the full argument of what Puerto Rico has produced, laid out in one place.