In the summer of 1986 I moved to San Francisco with my mom and one of the first

places we visited was one that I would keep coming back to for decades to come.

A place few locals even knew about, because it was one of San Francisco's best kept secrets.

One hidden away in plain sight. right in the middle of the bay.

We can see Alcatraz, we can see shipping containers, barges, lots of birds, beautiful day. And today I come to rediscover this place with my co-producer.

Testing one too.

My son Iselle, the Master Explorer.

You should come down here.

Pretty cool.

What's down there?

Well,

I'm Luce Fleming, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

You usually hear my name in the end credits for mixing and sound design, but today I get to share one of my favorite lesser known spots with you.

Iselle and I are going to relive a treasured part of my past and explore an incredible

monument of stonework and sound pipes and its connection to J Robert Oppenheimer's little

brother.

We're heading to the Wave organ.

After this.

I found two chu. after this one does too.

one has still. There's been a lot of talk about J Robert Oppenheimer lately. You know, the one Christopher Nolan made that movie about, the one many call The Father of the Atomic

Bomb. Well, believe it or not his slightly less famous younger brother, Frank Oppenheimer, who also worked on that bomb,

went on to found this incredible science and art learning center called the Exploratorium in San Francisco. And here's where this guy comes in.

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