Places stwp Wants to Go

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

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

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

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

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

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

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

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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

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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.