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Photo Gallery: Classic San Francisco Part of the Places of a Lifetime series from Traveler magazine
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The fronts of Alamo Square Victorian homes provide a vivid contrast with downtown skyscrapers along the horizon.
Photograph by Charles O'Rear/Corbis

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