Places elliotthav Wants to Go

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

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

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

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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

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

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

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

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

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.

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

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

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.