Haunted things to do in San Francisco
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in San Francisco? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — San Francisco Columbarium, The Wave Organ, Chapel of the Chimes 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 Francisco they'd never find on their own.
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San Francisco Columbarium
A copper-domed 1898 neoclassical rotunda that once anchored the sprawling Odd Fellows Cemetery — until the ci…
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The Wave Organ
Twenty-five PVC and concrete pipes are built into a jetty made partly from salvaged headstones and crypt frag…
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Chapel of the Chimes
Julia Morgan's 1928 Spanish-Gothic-meets-Moorish maze of interlocking indoor gardens, courtyards with skyligh…
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Presidio Pet Cemetery
A half-acre valley of roughly 424 handmade headstones for Army pets, laid out around 1952 by Army engineers a…
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Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
Founded in 1892 as San Francisco emptied its city cemeteries into this Peninsula town, Cypress Lawn is 148 ac…
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Smuggler's Cove
A three-level tiki den marked only by a red lightbulb and a small placard on an otherwise unmarked facade, ho…
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USS Hornet Museum
A decommissioned World War II aircraft carrier that recovered the Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts, now docked as…
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Hills of Eternity Memorial Park
A Jewish cemetery established in 1889 by Congregation Sherith Israel after San Francisco pushed its burial gr…