carllenox's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

carllenox

I’m an SF Bay Area denizen and frequent visitor to Paris. Lover of the strange, obscure and transcendental experience. I know a lot about a few things, a little about a lot of things, and actually I don’t really know anything.

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Places visited in Belvedere Tiburon, California

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Places visited in Healdsburg, California

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Places visited in Mill Valley, California

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San Francisco, California

Murphy Windmill

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Francisco, California

Spreckels Temple of Music

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

San Francisco, California

Dutch Windmill

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Francisco, California

Treasure Island

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

San Francisco, California

San Francisco Botanical Garden

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Vintage Carousel

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

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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.

eleskog

Added by eleskog

San Francisco, California

Leroy King Carousel

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Added by renakaba

San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Bison

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

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

San Francisco, California

Palace of Fine Arts

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

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Francisco, California

Long Now Orrery

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

San Francisco, California

Bourbon & Branch

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

Clinton

Added by Clinton

San Francisco, California

Exploratorium

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

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San Francisco, California

Japanese Tea Garden

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

Claymore

Added by Claymore

San Francisco, California

Alcatraz Island

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

AllisonEng

Added by AllisonEng

Le Comptoir Général

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

145 Rue Lafayette

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

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