Tag: “San Francisco California”

100 places found.

  1. Chinatown

    The largest Chinatown outside of Asia.

  2. Club Quarters in San Francisco

    If you can't afford a cruise, set sail for a weekend at San Francisco's Club Quarters. This Financial District hotel's low ceilings and metal swinging doors give you the illusion of being booked into a ship's interior cabin.

  3. Bay to breakers

    Started as a race through San Francisco in 1912 "Bay to Breakers" has become to more than a sports event. It has grown to a huge party throughout the whole city that no one should miss, when being in the bay area on the third sunday of may.

  4. Lombard Street

    One of San Francisco's most recognizable streets, it's almost cliché to come here during a visit to the city, but the novelty of such an unusual street is inarguably fun. Most locals never come here, but visitors line up for a block or two west of Hyde Street to drive down the eight or so bends at five miles per hour, while others taking photographs line the sidewalk staircases on either side.

  5. Palace of Fine Arts

    Originally built in 1915 for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the Palace itself is antique architecture - the massive columns dwarf human scale. It's very Arcadian or Picturesque - there's a swan-inhabited man-made lake.

    This is what it is now, not what it was then...

    The nearby Exploratorium is a science-based art gallery with exhibits designed by some amazing artists that work with natural phenomena like Ned Kahn and Doug Hollis - great on a rainy weekday if you can swing it....

  6. Castro District

  7. Green Gulch

    I have been fascinated by this place since I first discovered it a few years ago. It is the most relaxing and peaceful place I've ever seen.

    The monks welcome visitors every Sunday and prepare meals for them grown on their farm without the use of any chemicals.

  8. Caffe Trieste

    Caffe Trieste, in San Francisco's Little Italy, is the coolest coffee shop in the world. Caffe Trieste was opened in 1956 by Giovanni Giotta, or Pappa Gianni as he is known to friends and family.

  9. Pier 39

  10. California Academy of Sciences