Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah 330 Bonaventure Road. Surrounded by marshes and a river, this cemetery's lush vegetation swells over its entrance. Resting on the site of a former plantation house, its numerous granite and marble tombs cradled by ancient oaks dripping Spanish moss are the backdrop for John Berendt's Southern Gothic tale, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, that has brought so many tourists to this cemetery's paths that the owners of the sculpture featured on the book's cover have moved it to keep it safe. (Tombstone Etiquette) For now, you can see it in the Telfair Museum. A Stranger's Tomb near the entrance is used as a temporary site for deceased Savannah visitors waiting to be returned home. Residence of composer Johnny Mercer and poet Conrad Aiken.