Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

Half of a house.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

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

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

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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