Places imagreenbean Wants to Go

The historic building's ornate stained glass fixture has survived the devastating 1906 earthquake, ensuing fires, and multiple redevelopment attempts.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

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

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

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

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.