This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

If you've wandered at Machu Picchu or Stonehenge or the Coliseum or even snuck into that abandoned house on the edge of town,

you know the power in a piece of decrepit

architecture even if you haven't been to these places they've been photographed

in film for you abandoned Soviet stops, deserted old movie theaters,

decaying residential streets. They're fascinating in this like planet of the

apes kind of way. So of course there's a German word for it.

Ruin and lust, the long-standing aesthetic obsession with decay.

Resident Germanophile and producer Avery Truffleman.

It might actually be one of those made up German words.

It probably is.

But the concept itself is totally a real thing.

Ruins inspire wonder. They give the mind this task of recognition. thing. People flock to remainers of ancient civilizations, Romans, the Mayans, the Egyptians, but people also flock to things that just look like they're ancient too.

That combination of decomposition and romance makes a perfect cocktail of repulsion

and allure. And for San Franciscans, this place is sutro baths.

My friend Austin brought me there one night.

So how do you get in?

Does the trail just lead right to it?

Yeah, yeah, there's steps.

There's a parking lot up there and steps that go down.

Head to the rocks at Lands End on the very northwest corner of San Francisco.

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