SF Sights

64 Places

San Francisco, California

Long Now Orrery

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

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The Stern of the Brigantine Galilee

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

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Museum of the Eye

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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Musée Mécanique

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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Forbes Island

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

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Exploratorium

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

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The Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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Aria Antiques

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

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San Francisco's Cable Car Museum

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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The Tenderloin Museum

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

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Bourbon & Branch

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

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Audium Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

San Francisco, California

450 Sutter Street

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

San Francisco, California

Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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Mission Dolores Cemetery

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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Institute of Illegal Images

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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Seward Street Slides

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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Albion Castle

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

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Hunter's Point Shipyard

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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Secret Tiled Staircase

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

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Ruth Asawa’s San Francisco Fountain

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

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Crown & Crumpet

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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Prelinger Library

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

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Cayuga Park

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

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The Sutro Egyptian Collection

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

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The Wreck of the King Philip

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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Golden Gate Park Diorama

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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Beach Chalet WPA Murals

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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Ruins of the Sutro Baths

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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Mile Rocks Light

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

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Fort Miley Batteries

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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The Shipwrecks at Land's End

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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Golden Gate Park Model Yacht Club

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

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Alcatraz Island

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

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Battery Chamberlin

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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House of Air

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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Arion Press and M & H Type

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

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San Francisco Center for the Book

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

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Letterform Archive

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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Book Club of California

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

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Japanese Tea Garden

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

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Three Gems

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

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Mescaline Grove

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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Palace of Fine Arts

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

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Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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Yoda Fountain

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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Balmy Alley Murals

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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