6 Dark History Landmarks in San Francisco
6 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Alcatraz Island
View from Pier 33, The Embarcadero, San Francisco
That island sitting out there in the bay — it looks bleak, right? Cold concrete, guard towers, razor wire.
Coit Tower
1 Telegraph Hill Boulevard, San Francisco
This tower exists because of a woman who crashed a firemen's funeral when she was fifteen years old — and that was the most normal thing Lillie Hitchcock Coit ever did.
Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
You're looking at what might be the most photographed bridge on Earth, and almost nothing about it went according to plan.
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street, San Francisco
This cathedral sits on land that once belonged to Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four railroad barons who built the Transcontinental Railroad.
Mission Dolores
3321 16th Street, San Francisco
This is the oldest intact building in San Francisco, and its founding date puts American history in a perspective that most people don't expect.
Sutro Baths Ruins
1004 Point Lobos Avenue, San Francisco
These concrete ruins clinging to the cliff were once the largest indoor swimming facility in the world, and the man who built them owned one-twelfth of San Francisco.
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