Places Gravefog Wants to Go

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

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

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

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

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

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

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.