Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills
A cemetery whose founder banned every "sign of Earthly death" and replaced them with fountains, statuary, and sweeping lawns.
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Hubert Eaton opened this in 1952 on the old Lasky and Providencia ranches — land where The Birth of a Nation, All Quiet on the Western Front, and early Chaplin comedies were shot. His mandate was a great park, not a graveyard: curving, irregular roads wind through rolling green hills to give a rural feel inside Los Angeles.
What to look for
- The deliberately irregular curving road, laid out by 1951, designed to feel rural within the city
- Memorial architecture with interiors described as 'full of light and color' — Eaton's explicit design pledge
- Statuary and fountains standing in place of what he called 'unsightly stone yards'
At 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills is one of 33 sights worth the detour in Los Angeles, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Los Angeles pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
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- Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
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- Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- U.S. Bank TowerLA sold the sky above a fire-gutted library to fund its own rebuilding — and got its second-tallest tower in the bargain.
- Rose BowlA century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.