Located in rural northwest Alabama is the world’s only coon dog cemetery. Founded in 1937 on Labor Day, the cemetery began when Key Underwood buried his beloved coon dog, Troop. Officially, the cemetery’s name is the “Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard.”

Coon dogs are a type of scenthound used to hunt raccoons, feral pigs, and other animals. For a dog to be buried in the cemetery, the owner must verify they are a coon hound, a witness must verify the dog is a coonhound, and a board member of the cemetery must verify the dog is a coon hound. If a dog passes those tests, then their final resting place will be among a couple hundred of other coon hounds.

The cemetery is filled with a mixture of professional and handmade headstones. Many headstones had a mixture of mementos left for the dogs, from rocks to balls