San Francisco
The Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Chinatown, Lombard Street, the sea lions at Pier 39 and the Presidio.
12 places
Coit Tower
A tower paid for by a patron of firefighters and painted with Great Depression murals
Ferry Building
Fifty thousand people a day once passed through this terminal, until the bridges took the ferries’ riders
Golden Gate Bridge
A bridge built in the Great Depression and painted International Orange
Lombard Street
The city’s crookedest street, on a hill named for Russian sailors
Cable Car Museum
The beating heart of the cable cars: the cables under the streets are still pulled from here
City Lights Bookstore
The store where a clerk was arrested over a book of poems, and the court sided with poetry
Dragon Gate
The ceremonial entrance to the oldest Chinatown in North America
Fort Point
A Gold Rush fortress for which the bridge’s engineer bent a special arch over it
Ghirardelli Square
A Gold Rush chocolate factory that San Franciscans saved from demolition
Palace of Fine Arts
Ruins of Rome made on purpose: the only 1915 fair building still standing on its site
Pier 39 Sea Lions
Sea lions that chose this dock on their own after the 1989 earthquake
Presidio Officers’ Club
Walls of the Spanish fort where Rezanov proposed to Concepción, the story behind the opera Juno and Avos