Fog, hills, and the world's most photographed bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is widely called the most photographed bridge in the world, and the fog it disappears into has a name — Karl — and a following of its own. Its International Orange color started as a sealant primer, kept because the consulting architect liked how it looked against the water and the grey. The city occupies seven square miles at the tip of a peninsula and has punched well above that for 170 years, as the gateway of the Gold Rush, the home of the Beat Generation, the epicenter of the Summer of Love, and the launchpad of the modern tech industry. The neighborhoods work as separate towns: the Mission, the Castro, Chinatown, the Haight, North Beach, each shaped by a different wave of arrival.
