Crematorium: A structure designed to house cremated remains, either in urns or other specially-designed containers.

Crypt: An above-ground burial space, usually in a mausoleum or tomb, but also may be free-standing.

Headstone: Also tombstone, gravestone, or marker. A carved stone marker placed over a burial site. Provides identification and usually birth/death dates and occasionally other information (marriage, children, etc.). May be standing, raised, or flush. (Standing stones may also interchangably be called “monuments.”)

Mausoleum: A free-standing structure that contains crypts. May be personal, for the use of a single family or individual (also called a tomb), or a larger structure providing for the interrment of many individuals.

Monument: An upright stone with the surname of a single famly, intended to mark a family plot. Typically surrounded by markers for individual family members. (“Monument” may also refer to a standing marker, containing information for only one individual.)

Obelisk : A four-sided tapering pillar with a pyramid-shaped top, 6-40 feet in height; the top piece is usually a single block. May be a marker for a single individual or a monument for a family or several individuals.

Tomb: A free-standing structure that contains crypts, also called a mausoleum, but for a single family or individual.