Best place to bury your sorrows

Being sad sucks. You hole up in your house, crying behind closed doors and feeling sorry for yourself. Snap out of it! Take that show on the road! When you're breaking down or getting broken up with, there's no place better than Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. You've got 174 acres of land! You've got 580 varieties of trees! You've got 85,000 dead people -- some of them famous! What more could you want?

Founded in 1831, Mount Auburn is the oldest landscaped cemetery in the country, and one of the most beautiful green spaces in the area. Of course, you can't enjoy many of your standard green-space activities here. No biking, for example -- it'd be disrespectful. (You are, however, allowed to drive your car around. Go figure.)

In addition to taking in the cemetery's obvious charms -- a mind-boggling assortment of plants and flowers, lovely lakes, a tower with a view -- you can also enjoy the following: a bathroom with stained-glass windows (don't get confused and try to enter the family mausoleums), an array of sepulchral oddities including a huge sphinx monument, the smell of fresh bread from the nearby Iggy's bakery wafting over the graves (but no picnicking!), and a captive audience. Share your sorrows with Buckminster Fuller, unburden yourself to Mary Baker Eddy, and let Henry Wadsworth Longfellow make it all better.

Then have a good cry. No one will even notice. It is a cemetery, after all.

Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, (617) 547-7105.