Places herrmannfan Wants to Go

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Half of a house.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

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

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