This might sound odd, but we do enjoy a day in the cemetery.

Not just any cemetery, but the historic Frederick Law Olmsted–designed Mountain View Cemetery, in the foothills of Oakland and Piedmont. Not only is this place incredibly beautiful, you will recognize the names of many of its residents, whose monikers grace many a street and landmark throughout the Bay Area. Take a visual journey behind the gates of this 154-year-old piece of history, and into our day with the dead.

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Perhaps the most extravagant of all the graves at Mountain View Cemetery is that of Charles Crocker, one of the famed Big Four—also including Leland Stanford, Collis Potter Huntington and Mark Hopkins—that created the Central Pacific Railroad. Crocker's family is interred with him in this family mausoleum, located on Millionaires' Row.