This relatively small and hidden Westwood cemetery is packed with dead stars, most famously Marilyn Monroe. You'll also find Fanny Brice, Truman Capote, Dean Martin, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Cassavetes, Rodney Dangerfield, Don Knotts, Carl Wilson, Frank Zappa, and Billy Wilder.

Hollywood Forever is old (founded in 1899), picturesque (it's appeared in LA Story, among other films), and just packed with Old Hollywood's dead (and beyond), including Douglas Fairbanks, Peter Lorre, Rudolph Valentino, the Talmadge sisters, Victor Fleming, Mel Blanc, Cecil B. DeMille, John Huston, Johnny Ramone, Bugsy Siegel, and Estelle Getty.

This huge Roman Catholic cemetery in Culver is home to Bing Crosby, Bela Lugosi, Rita Hayworth, Mack Sennett, Sharon Tate, John Ford, John Candy, and Darby Crash.

The Forest Lawn cemeteries are so enormous and elaborate and filled with a particular mythology of death that Evelyn Waugh made them central to his Los Angeles satire The Loved One. Glendale is the oldest and home to Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Mary Pickford, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, George Burns, Gracie Allen, WC Fields, Sammy Davis Jr., Sam Cooke, Nat King Cole, Sid Grauman, Casey Stengel, Theodore Dreiser, L. Frank Baum, and Aimee Semple McPherson, and Michael Jackson (something for everyone).

This wide-open space near sister cemetery Forest Lawn Glendale is home to Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Liberace, David Carradine, John Ritter, Gene Autry, and Brittany Murphy.

Here in this Jewish cemetery (adjacent to Forest Lawn) you'll find Norman Fell, Cass Elliott, Totie Fields, and David Rose.

Way out in the Valley you'll find Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Bob Crane of Hogan's Heroes.

There are a handful of minor celebrities buried here (the last Curly replacement in The Three Stooges, Jiminy Cricket), but the big thing is if you've visited Stan Laurel at Forest Lawn HH, you might want to stop by Oliver Hardy's grave at Valhalla.

This Catholic cemetery up in the Valley is home to Bob Hope, Ritchie Valens, William Bendix, Jerry Colonna, and voice-of-Donald-Duck Clarence Nash.

At the modest Home of Peace in East LA, you'll find Jerome "Curly" Howard and Shemp Howard, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Mark Sandrich, and all three of the Warner brothers.

Right across the street from Home of Peace, Calvary hosts several Barrymores (Lionel, Ethel, John), Lou Costello, Edward L. Doheny, legendary art director Cedric Gibbons, Irene Dunne, and Ramon Novarro.

This is the spot for a couple of great Jewish comedians: Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce.