Colma, California, just outside San Francisco, was founded as a necropolis in the 1920s. Today, the city is home to about ...

Wyatt Earp, stands in front of the bar at the Alhambra Theater in its early days. Courtesy San Mateo County History Museum. On Oct.18, 1957, two Peninsula teens out on an evening joyride in San Mateo ...

COLMA, Calif. — So many Wyatt Earp fans visit the Wild West legend's grave in Colma that the folks who oversee his tombstone at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park have a special name for them. "There ...

With only about 1,700 residents, the Northern California town of Colma considers itself small — but that’s only if you count the living. Add the dead, and it becomes the Bay Area’s largest “city,” ...

Tiny Colma, California, is famous for its cemeteries, the final resting places of newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst and Charles de Young, jeans maker Levi Strauss, Old West lawman Wyatt Earp ...

Colma, California, is a necropolis where the dead outnumber the living by a thousand to one. The town was established after San Francisco banned new burials and exhumed and relocated bodies to Colma ...

COLMA, CA — On a cloudless October afternoon, Richard Rocchetta piloted his Toyota through a sea of weatherbeaten headstones and mausoleums that sprawl over hilly, manicured lawns of his hometown. He ...