Places flaneux Wants to Go

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

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

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

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

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

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

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

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

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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

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.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

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

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.