Light Bulb Grave of World's Greatest Electrician
Totowa, New Jersey
In life, Sal Giardino was known as a character. In death, he wanted to be known as an electrician.
He died in 1994, and the tombstone that marks his grave is a black, threaded, four-foot-tall light bulb emblazoned with Sal's NJ Electrical Contractors License Number 409, an etched hand clutching lightning bolts, and "World's Greatest Electrician" written in electroshock letters. On the bulb's base is engraved another lightning bolt and an electrical outlet. It's a good job of turning something conceptual into something visual, and it was reportedly based on a sketch made by one of his daughters.
So is the tombstone next to it, which marks the grave of another of Sal's daughters, Kim, who died only three months after Sal. It's as black as her dad's light bulb, but it's decorated with sand-blasted flowers and a large peace sign superimposed over the earth.