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caminick

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I live in San Francisco and write Here Lies a Story - a website, Instagram, and newsletter dedicated to exploring the California Gothic. At HLAS, I explore buried history, folk stories, urban legends, and the dark underbelly of California and the US. If you have ghost stories, cool cemetery tips, weird urban legends, or deep history takes, hit me up! @here_lies_a_story 💀
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Vintage postcard showing Alvord Lakelet and Alvord Bridge in the distance

San Francisco, California

Alvord Lake Bridge

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The mysterious Dentzel goat

San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Vintage Carousel

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Boutique below and legs above

San Francisco, California

Dangling Legs at the Piedmont Boutique

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Lotta's Fountain

San Francisco, California

Lotta's Fountain

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

San Francisco Columbarium

San Francisco, California

San Francisco Columbarium

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

San Francisco Botanical Garden

San Francisco, California

San Francisco Botanical Garden

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The fictional Tanner's residence.

San Francisco, California

The 'Full House' House

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Vallaincourt Fountain
Permanently Closed

San Francisco, California

Vaillancourt Fountain

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Church of 8 Wheels.

San Francisco, California

Church of 8 Wheels

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Mission Dolores Cemetery

San Francisco, California

Mission Dolores Cemetery

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Golden Gate Park Bison

San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Bison

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

SS Ohioan Runs Aground

San Francisco, California

The Shipwrecks at Land's End

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

"Anti-Saloon League San Francisco Est. 1920" A sign seen outside Bourbon & Branch.

San Francisco, California

Bourbon & Branch

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Palace of Fine Arts

San Francisco, California

Palace of Fine Arts

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Paxton Gate Exterior

San Francisco, California

Paxton Gate

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The wild parrots of Telegraph Hill

San Francisco, California

The Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Musée Mécanique

San Francisco, California

Musée Mécanique

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Main entrance to the Exploratorium at Pier 15

San Francisco, California

Exploratorium

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

View of the ruins from the hillside. The original stairs would have come down on the far left. The curved edge of the original aquarium and the outline of the diving well are on the right.

San Francisco, California

Ruins of the Sutro Baths

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The Giant Camera Obscura in 2014

San Francisco, California

Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The Tonga Room's pool.

San Francisco, California

The Tonga Room

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Nepenthes pitcher plants - beautiful killers

San Francisco, California

San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The Japanese Tea Garden.

San Francisco, California

Japanese Tea Garden

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

'Wood Line'

San Francisco, California

‘Wood Line’

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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