Places sierrawest Wants to Go

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

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

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

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

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

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

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

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

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

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

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

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.