Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, Cemetery in North Hollywood, United States

Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery is a 63-acre cemetery at 10621 Victory Boulevard, straddling North Hollywood and Burbank. Its east entrance is the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, a Spanish Mission Revival rotunda with a colorful tiled dome and female figures with arms raised to the sky. The cemetery lies south of Hollywood Burbank Airport.

John R. Osborne and C. C. Fitzpatrick founded Valhalla in 1923; the Spanish Mission Revival gateway, designed by Kenneth A. McDonald Jr. with stonework by sculptor Federico A. Giorgi, cost $140,000. The rotunda was dedicated on March 1, 1925, with a concert by contralto Maude Elliott. Five months later the founders were convicted of selling the same burial plots up to 16 times; they were fined $12,000 each and served under three years. The state of California took over the cemetery, and Pierce Brothers bought it in 1950.

The name comes from Norse myth: Valhalla is Odin's hall for warriors slain in battle. The Spanish Mission Revival rotunda, dedicated on 1 March 1925 with a concert by contralto Maude Elliott, was the cemetery's original entrance and drew picnickers who spread blankets between three reflecting pools. Sculptor Federico A. Giorgi, who made the 30-foot elephants and lions for the 1916 film Intolerance, is buried outside near his own stonework.

The cemetery straddles the North Hollywood–Burbank line, with its main entrance at 10621 Victory Boulevard; the Portal of the Folded Wings stands at the east entrance. Pierce Brothers moved the entry here from Valhalla Drive in Burbank after buying the grounds in 1950, and a two-story office and mortuary followed. The site lies just south of Hollywood Burbank Airport.

The Portal of the Folded Wings was rededicated on December 17, 1953, the 50th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight. At the ceremony the ashes of Walter R. Brookins, the Wrights' first civilian student, were placed there. Sculptor Federico A. Giorgi and cemetery employee James Gillette, who pushed the rededication, are both buried outside near the shrine.