In the lovely city of Santa Cruz, CA stands the Evergreen Historic Cemetery where many California pioneers and prominent citizens in Santa C...

This is the grave of Henry Mumford Taylor and Annie Gilmore buried at Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery in Santa Rosa, CA. The tree was literally b...

Ok first allow me to apologize for my lack of activity here lately as I've been getting killed by work in the real world and it's ha...

Lefty began his career in the minor leagues as a pitcher for the San Francisco Seals and from 1919-1923 played for both the Boston Red Sox a...

Dating to around 1950 the San Francisco Presidio Pet Cemetery can be considered one of only two cemeteries left in San Francisco. The other...

So me and this little guy had a standoff the other day. We were trying to figure out who was going to make the first move and who was going...

I decided to take my girlfriend with me on a job inspection the other day that was about 4 hours away from my house. It was up the Californ...

Wyatt Earp is buried with his c...

Most of the time when I profile a specific person it's necessary to spend a ton of time researching what they did to make them sound imp...

Inside Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, CA there is what I refer to as "The Big Tree Thing" I have only been able to find one refe...

I thought just about everyone had heard the story of the Donner Party but was surprised to find somebody who hadn't. So I will summariz...

Today is a day you're supposed to celebrate your love for that special someone in your life. I'd like to take some time here to cel...

Bay Area hip hop legend Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks was born in Oakland, CA on July 5, 1970. At the age of 19 he released his first...

Click the picture for a larger version...But does anyone know what this epitaph may mean? It was just sitting there with nobody's name ...

Born a slave in 1844 Obediah Summers worked as a servant for a top soldier in the Confederate Army and in 1862 was captured by the Union. T...

Fake flowers and a fire truck. The strange thing was this child died in 1958 but the fire truck was fairly new. Perhaps a grieving mother ...

In Jewish sections of cemeteries you often see stones left on the markers signifying their visit to a loved ones grave. Here you see that m...

A native of Virginia Alfred D. Taliaferro M.D. has the distinction of being the first M.D. in the Marin County area. He was widely respecte...

I got a chance to visit Mt. Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael, CA yesterday and I'm not sure who was more scared. We had a short standof...

Lately I've been obsessed with these mushrooms you see growing in the middle of the grass at some cemeteries. Many people probably have...