Places Guilhathorn 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.

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

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

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Russian history in San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.