Westwood Village Memorial Park

2012 | Best Pocket Cemetery

Everyone knows about L.A.'s two grand cemeteries: Hollywood Forever, with its over-the-top tombstones, and Forest Lawn, a sort of theme park to death so gloriously over the top it inspired no less than Evelyn Waugh. But you won't find Marilyn Monroe in either of these -- or Truman Capote, or Natalie Wood. The A-list party, it turns out, is in Westwood. Tucked mere feet from the office towers of Wilshire, in just an acre or so hidden off to the side from Glendon Avenue, is Pierce... More »