I’ve never understood this, but there are a handful of tourists who come to Los Angeles in search of dead people. Well, not just any dead people, but rather celebrity ones.
After searching for stars in Hollywood, purchasing maps to their homes, and hanging out with the paparazzi in front of Spago, star-struck tourists sometimes wander off in search of the one place that celebrities can’t escape their fans: their gravesites.
I’m not so sure why it’s appealing to stand on a plot of earth and say to yourself, “Wow! I’m standing 6 feet away from the decomposed corpse of Clark Gable!” And yet people do this.
In fact, there is enough of a market for dead celebrities that an entire 340-page book was been written dedicated to locating the gravesites of celebrities in California alone. Laid to Rest in California points morbid celebrity stalkers to the location of more than 1000 graves of the rich and famous.
Be sure to pick up a copy next time you visit California. And then you can swing on over to Forest Lawn and check out Liberace… decomposing. Get it? Hahahahahahahah.