We hated all those lists of the weirdest places in SF. So we made our own.
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San Francisco is a weird city. Built on the backs of 300,000 adventurers, speculators and grifters seeking gold, it’s probably no surprise that the city has always inhabited a space on the edge of American life.
Walking the city today there are a hundred spots of intrigue that tell stories of its bizarre past, but they’re not always easy to find.
Searching Google for a list of “the weirdest things in San Francisco” yields some pretty tired results (sorry wave organ and pretty staircases), so we decided to make our own.
The secrets of the San Francisco Columbarium
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The Columbarium, 1 Loraine Court, San Francisco.Andrew Chamings
Most Bay Area folk know the oft-repeated fact that the Colma has more dead bodies than living ones it s true and it s not even close. The town, formed in 1924 as one of America s only necropolises, has a living population of about 1,700, but entombs about 1.5 million bodies.
The reason that the little town a few miles south of San Francisco is one big graveyard is the mass (and pretty gruesome) movement of bodies that occurred a century ago.
But one beautiful building in San Francisco, hidden down the end of a dead end street just north of Golden Gate Park, still stands as a vestige to a time when the city was covered in graves.