Pyramid Tomb of C.F. Harms

North Bergen, New Jersey

Charles Frederick Harms died in 1918. He made millions in the shipping business, and his 20-foot-tall pyramid tomb in Flower Hill Cemetery is supposedly the only one of its shape in New Jersey. Harms wanted to be noticed; the pyramid is only a few feet from the cemetery entrance, in a row of other impressively large mausoleums, although none as memorable as his.

Time, however, has not been kind to Harms's look-at-me-forever goal. Flanked by sphinxes, the entrance to his tomb has been sealed shut with unattractive cinder blocks -- a much later addition, from the looks of them. And the pyramid itself is no longer as impressive as it once was, because the cemetery has built an even bigger mausoleum -- one of those modern bulk-interment-for-the-masses warehouses -- right next to it.