Places galancesar17 Wants to Go

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

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

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

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

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

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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