Places jfalkenthal Wants to Go

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

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

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

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Half of a house.

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

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

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

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.