Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, this historic cemetery holds crypts of many famous founders of California. Among those buried here are Elizabeth Short, the unsolved Hollywood murder victim known as the Black Dahlia.

Among the curious elements of the cemetery are its three pyramid mausoleums more then any other cemetery in the U.S. The pyramid mausoleum craze started in the early 1800's after Napoleon invaded Egypt.

Just down the street from the cemetery is the beautiful Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium. Designed by Julia Morgan, the columbarium consists of many small rooms with a Gothic feel, connected by larger, naturally-lit areas with interior gardens. The urns in the older part of the building are kept in walls of glass cases stacked floor to ceiling; the effect is rather like that of a library of the dead, and indeed many of the urns are shaped like books.

The Chapel of the Chimes also has regular music concerts, often featuring jazz and contemporary classical music.