Haunted things to do in San Diego
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in San Diego? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — SS Monte Carlo Shipwreck (Shipwreck Beach), WorldBeat Cultural Center, Centro Cultural de la Raza and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of San Diego they'd never find on their own.
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SS Monte Carlo Shipwreck (Shipwreck Beach)
A 300-foot concrete-hulled gambling ship — a floating casino anchored three miles offshore to skirt Californi…
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WorldBeat Cultural Center
A one-million-gallon water tower on the edge of Balboa Park, abandoned for decades, that founder Makeda Cheat…
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Centro Cultural de la Raza
A circular 1914 water tank that sat abandoned until Chicano artists occupied it in 1971, painted the interior…
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El Campo Santo Cemetery
California Historical Landmark No. 68 is a small walled Catholic burial ground where Juan María Osuna — San D…
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Mount Hope Cemetery — Kate Morgan's grave
San Diego's oldest municipal cemetery, founded in 1869, holds the actual, unmarketed grave (Division 5, Secti…