10 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in San Francisco
10 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Chinatown Dragon Gate
Bush Street & Grant Avenue, San Francisco
You're standing at the entrance to the oldest Chinatown in North America.
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.
Fairmont San Francisco
950 Mason Street, San Francisco
The Fairmont Hotel was scheduled to open on the morning of April eighteenth, nineteen-oh-six.
Ferry Building
1 Ferry Building, The Embarcadero, San Francisco
Before the Golden Gate and Bay bridges were built, this was one of the busiest transit terminals on the planet — second only to Charing Cross station in London.
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.
Lombard Street
Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth, San Francisco
Alright, so here's the thing about the so-called crookedest street in the world — it's not.
Painted Ladies
710-720 Steiner Street, San Francisco
Those seven Victorian houses across the street, lined up with the downtown skyline behind them — you've seen this view a thousand times.
Palace of Fine Arts
3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco
What you're looking at is a building that was designed to look like a ruin — and then actually became one.
Transamerica Pyramid
600 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
Look up at this thing.
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