Places aidan Wants to Go

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

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

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Half of a house.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

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

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

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

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

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