Dearly Departed Tours and Museum.

Dearly Departed Tours and Museum (Closed)

Scott Michaels began driving people around Hollywood and L.A. to see famous celebrity death spots in 2005. Now his "Tragical History Tour" has its own multimedia bus, and in 2017 he moved into a larger building to open a museum of celebrity death relics.

The main reason Scott needed a larger building was to display his newest acquisition, Jayne Mansfield's Death Car. The mangled Buick, formerly at the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum, slammed into the back of a truck on a Louisiana highway in 1967, instantly killing Hollywood's most notorious blonde bombshell.

Among the many other relics on exhibit in the Dearly Departed Museum are Rock Hudson's bedsheets of death, Divine's motel door of death, Mae West's dentures (tastefully displayed on purple velvet), pieces of the death plane of John Denver (and the Hindenburg), and Karen Carpenter's bathroom sink.

Dearly Departed Tours and Museum

Directions:: East edge of Hollywood, on the north side of Santa Monica Blvd (Route 66), at its intersection with N. Bronson Ave.
Hours:: Closed permanently Jan. 2021. (Call to verify)
Phone:: 323-466-3696
Admission:: Museum $8. Tour $50.
Status:: Closed

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