Places chrissyml Wants to Go

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

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

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

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

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

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

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

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

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

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

Russian history in San Francisco.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

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

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