In the first few decades of the 20th century, San Francisco had a corpse problem. Specifically, that their previously living residents were taking up valuable real estate in the ground. So San Francisco came up with an innovative solution: They evicted their dead and sent them to a small community 10 miles to the south. That town is Colma.
For 75 years, Colma has been steadily collecting bodies, and it's getting deader all the time. As of 2009, there were 1,500 living residents and 1.5 million marked graves that take up so much space that the buildings in Colma are flanked by tombstones. Seventy-three percent of the land belongs to dead folks and future-dead folks, and the rest is occupied by people who have a great sense of humor. The town's motto is "It's Great To Be Alive In Colma."
Once you get past the initial shock of tripping over multiple gravestones in a town that sounds suspiciously like "coma," you might notice that the town also has a few living residents who have put their roots down among the dead. Which means you're walking among a population who grew up playing hide-and-seek in cemeteries and spend several hours a year waiting on funeral processions. And surprise! They all look like Wednesday Addams.
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Article originally published here: http://www.cracked.com/article_22760_6-weirdest-tiny-towns-in-united-states.html
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