Places Jessfrawg Wants to Go

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

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

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

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

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

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

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

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

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

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

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.