Unique Places in SF

59 Places

San Francisco, California

The Wave Organ

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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San Francisco, California

Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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Vermont Street

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

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Jack Kerouac Alley

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

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Philosopher’s Way

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

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Bernal Hill Rock

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

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Site of Compton's Cafeteria Riot

Where a demonstration led to equal rights for one of California's most marginalized communities.

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'Street Whale'

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

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San Francisco, California

The Trocadero

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

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San Francisco, California

Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park

One of the smallest parks in San Francisco honors the legacy of the "Mother of Civil Rights in California."

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Sutro Heights Park

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

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San Francisco, California

Showgirl Magic Museum

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

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San Francisco, California

Gregangelo Museum

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

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San Francisco, California

Hang Ah Tea Room

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

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San Francisco, California

Sunnyside Conservatory

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

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The Box SF-Historic Pressroom and Mercantile

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

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San Francisco, California

Poet's Corner

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

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Jack's Record Cellar

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

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San Francisco, California

Church of 8 Wheels

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

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San Francisco, California

Peephole Cinema

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

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San Francisco, California

AIDS Interfaith Memorial Chapel

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

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San Francisco, California

Tenderloin National Forest

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

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San Francisco, California

Faery Door

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.

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Internet Archive Headquarters

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

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San Francisco, California

Arion Press and M & H Type

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

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San Francisco, California

Dangling Legs at the Piedmont Boutique

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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Beat Museum

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

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San Francisco, California

The Tenderloin Museum

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

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San Francisco, California

Lincoln Park

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

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San Francisco, California

‘Wood Line’

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

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Fleishhacker Pool Ruins

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

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San Francisco, California

Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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Portals of the Past

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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Portrait of Emperor Norton

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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Hotaling Whiskey Warehouse

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

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San Francisco, California

Site of the San Francisco Hippodrome

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

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San Francisco, California

The Old Ship Saloon

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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San Francisco, California

Fort Miley Batteries

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

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San Francisco, California

Land’s End Octagon House

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

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San Francisco, California

Birthplace of Isadora Duncan

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

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Golden Gate Park Druid Circles

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

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San Francisco, California

Mescaline Grove

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

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San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Horseshoe Pitch

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

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Angler's Lodge and Casting Pools

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

San Francisco, California

Three Gems

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

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Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection

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

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San Francisco, California

Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

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San Francisco, California

The Pirate Supply Store at 826 Valencia

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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