san francisco
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These Time-Warp Photos Show Six Cities In The Past And Present
Cities change: skyscrapers go up, row houses are torn down, neighbourhoods gentrify, earthquakes destroy. Vintage photographs of cities can be fascinating in and of themselves, but the familiar unfamiliarity of these time-warped photographs are especially intriguing.
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An Inside Tour Of San Francisco’s Sewage Treatment Plant
If you have ever been to San Francisco, then some part of you — or some former part of you — has almost certainly passed through the city’s Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant. But, considering how utterly vital it is to the city, the wastewater plant is also very much invisible, tucked away in a neighbourhood…
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Tour The Nine Steepest Residential Streets In The US
As a big urban walker, I like to head for the hills. So when I stumbled upon this list of the steepest streets in the US, I just had to see what they looked like, and I started planning a trip to hit all of the most insanely steep stretches of American streets. The scariest…
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Get A Load Of This Waterfall That Was Almost Built In The US
San Francisco’s skyline has a handful of famous landmarks dotted around the city — the Transamerica Tower, the Painted Ladies, the Golden Gate Bridge — but the most visible might be Sutro Tower, standing 298m tall on Twin Peaks since 1973. As icons go, it’s definitely got the minimal, industrial-chic vibe going on — essentially…