to die for - View this location on map 'for a look at the artistic, the eccentric and the eternal, wander through barre's meticulously maintained hope cemetery (802-476-6245), a monumental museum of funereal art that attracts busloads of tourists. (it has also been known to serve as an al fresco showroom for local gravestone sellers.) keep an eye out for granite carvings of an oversize soccer ball; a race driver's favorite car, below; a life-size armchair; an airplane; a woman caressing a dying man; and a married couple gazing into each other's eyes and holding hands in a stone bed. elia corti, who was barre's leading stone carver in 1903, when he died from a gunshot wound after a meeting between anarchists and socialists turned violent, appears posed a bit like 'the thinker' but wearing a three-piece suit and two-toned shoes.'' New York Times 224 east montpelier road, Barre, VT Historical, Cultural

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