Places Caytastrophy Wants to Go

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

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

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

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

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

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