A columbarium and funeral chapel designed by architect Julia Morgan in the 1920s, expanded through the 1950s. The complex is a labyrinthine Moorish-Gothic building arranged around internal courtyards and garden rooms, with arched ceilings, fountains, pools of light from stained glass, and thousands of niches holding the remains of Oakland's notable and ordinary dead alike.
It functions as a fully operational columbarium — you can visit freely as long as you are respectful. The building's constant addition of chapels and corridors over decades creates a spatial disorientation that is strangely beautiful. It sits on Piedmont Avenue in the hills above Oakland.