Known as the “City of Souls,” Colma is shaped as much by its dead as its living. Children play among headstones, and locals ...

Dino Smith became one of San Francisco's unclaimed when he died in November 2020. Photo courtesy Anne Bluethenthal. This is part one of a two-part series. Read part two here. Dino Smith made his home ...

Sunset View Cemetery in Colma, where San Francisco's indigent and unclaimed dead were buried from 1899 to 1951. Photo from Find a Grave. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily ...

Every month, a boat sails from Fisherman's Wharf to the Golden Gate Bridge with a lifetime of precious cargo. The cargo is the remains of San Francisco's unclaimed bodies. And the boat provides ...

COLMA -- 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's ...