Places aidan Wants to Go

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.