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It was reported that 'Aa'ishah said that when it was her night for the Messenger of Allah to stay with her, he would go out during the latter part of the night to (the cemetery of) al-Baqee' and say, "Peace be upon you, dwellings of the believing people. There has come to you that which you were promised, …, and if Allah wills we will follow you soon. O Allah, forgive the people of Baqee' al-Gharqad." (Narrated by Muslim, 974).
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This is praying for the departed souls and remembering death. So, visiting graves for this purpose is a good deed.
But the grave-keeping is business of selling and buying shirk. For example, millions of people from around the world go to Ajmeer in India to visit the grave of Khwaja Mainuddin Chisti with the belief that if they visit this grave Allah or Chisti will be pleased with them and do good to them. They pay money to the grave-keepers with the belief that the graved soul will be glad for payment and will do good to them or intercede for them to Allah. Depending on the reputation of the dead soul, income from some graves rise even to a billion US dollar a year.
Though the grave-keeping business is done with the graves of Muslim saints only, the visitors belong to other religions, mainly Hinduism, too. The grave-keepers always bear the identity of Muslim and so do the most visitors.
Astonishingly in many countries, the government even promote the business by leasing the graves and constructing buildings for the visitors.