Places jeams Wants to Go

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

A tribute to the artist and activist who created the rainbow pride flag.

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

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

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

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

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

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).

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

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