Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Hubert Eaton called ordinary cemeteries "unsightly, depressing stoneyards" — then spent decades replacing them with fountains, statuary, and a working art museum.
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Founded in 1906 and reshaped from 1917 by Eaton, this Glendale cemetery abolished upright grave markers and filled the grounds with sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, and sculpture. The on-site Forest Lawn Museum (opened 1952) has mounted solo exhibitions for Rembrandt, Matisse, and Goya — an unlikely art program tucked beside the Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection.
What to look for
- Babyland, a heart-shaped burial section reserved for infants
- The Forest Lawn Museum, which rotates art exhibitions twice yearly and sits next to the Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection
- Section names — Slumberland, Vesperland, Dawn of Tomorrow — that map Eaton's optimistic Christian vision of death onto the landscape
The museum changes exhibitions twice a year; confirm the current show before making the trip out to Glendale.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park 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.
More to see in Los Angeles
- Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
- SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- 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.