Glendale - Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Scarcely any other city has so many "famous" cemeteries, and none is more famous than Forest Lawn (1712 South Glendale Avenue, Glendale), which is said to have more than a million visitors every year - a number exceeded by no other cemetery. Its founder Hubert Eaton acquired a small cemetery in 1917 and over the years converted it into a last resting place with the atmosphere more of a park than a cemetery. Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" represented in a church window, can be seen in the "Memorial Court of Honor"; American history is conjured up in the "Court of Freedom", and a 18x30ft/5.5x9m mosaic reproduction of a famous painting shows the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. You can see a copy of Michelangelo's