Visiting The Alley Of Honor Cemetery In Baku

If you're a big shot in Azerbaijan, you may end up in the Alley of Honor cemetery, sculpture park. The place is reserved for the leaders of yesterday, the heroes of government, design, the arts. Maybe a woman or two.

Starting off big, the impressive grave, monument to the third president of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev. The plot comes with its own gardener.

The graves are not some simple affair, no basic headstone with a generic, "With Love" etching. Here's a statue of a famous mathematician and some sort of doctor, scientist. Casual, confident poses and maybe a piece of your, err, equipment helps sell your significance.

A nod to Soviet socialist style. The park was opened in 1948.

You can take it with you! At least part of a piano and the keyboard from the movie Big. Found, a woman. Not an easy discovery among the endless guys. Her pose says, "Hmph, took you long enough."

There are cute moments to be had. Father and son, forever united. "Dad, do you like my model?"