Places micheleshreeve Wants to Go

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

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

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.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.