6. HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY Los Angeles. Over 115 years old. In the shadow of the famous Hollywood sign. Among notables buried here: Rudolph Valentino and Mel Blanc.
5. BOOT HILL Tombstone, Arizona. They died with their boots on. Up to 300 buried here. One gravestone reads: "Here lies Lester Moore / Four slugs / from a 44 / No less / No more." Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury, victims of the OK Corral buried here.
4. ST. LOUIS CEMETERY NO. 1 New Orleans. Oldest of the city's three Catholic cemeteries, opened in 1789. Built up because of low-lying land, vault on top of vault. Marie Laveau buried here.
3. FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL PARK Glendale, California. Final resting place of 250,000. Among them: Gracie Allen, author L. Frank Baum "Wizard of Oz," Nat King Cole, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Walt Disney.
2. GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The aftermath of the great battle and the famous speech.
1. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Arlington, Virginia. The cemetery built to "get" Robert E. Lee on his land. Obviously, a real lot of famous people buried here.
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