San Francisco, California
Alvord Lake Bridge
An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.
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San Francisco, California
An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.
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This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.
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The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.
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San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
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The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
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Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.
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This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.
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This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
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This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.
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The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.
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San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.
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A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
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A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.
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The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
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A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
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Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
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A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
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San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
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The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
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A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
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Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
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Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
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Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
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Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.