Places Jessfrawg Wants to Go

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

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

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

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

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

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

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.