Blackhawk Country Club

Blackhawk Country Club

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Ghirardelli Square: Information Services

Shopping and waterfront dining at fine restaurants and shops in historic San Francisco Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory near San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf. The building was saved from destruction in one of the U.S.'s first examples of adaptive reuse.Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival takes place in early September.

Little Sheep Mongolia Hot Pot

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Alcatraz

Exploratorium

Founded in 1969 by noted physicist and educator Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, the Exploratorium houses a playful array of over 650 hands-on science, art, and human perception exhibits. From salt volcanos and bubble bombs to fault lines and frogs, the line up tests imaginations young and old. Just the building itself, a palatial domed structure left from the San Francisco Pan Pacific Exhibition of 1916, is worth a visit.

Fisherman's Wharf

Popular with tourists and sea lions, Fisherman's Wharf is full of shops, silly museums and family fun. Still a working wharf, its vendors sell thousands of tons of fish and shellfish. Take an early morning walk down "Fish Alley" to see fisherman at work. Later, the Wharf is boardwalk-style family entertainment with decidedly tourist attractions such as Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum, the Red & White Fleet, a the Wax Museum. For maritime-lovers and WWII buffs, the San Francisco Maritime Musuem is at the foot of Polk St. and massive USS Pampanito is docked right at Pier 45

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Golden Gate Bridge

Arguably the world's most beautiful bridge, the mammoth rust-red deco San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge connects San Francisco with Marin County and can be experienced from near countless angles. Drive, bike, or walk across the two-mile long suspension bridge or get down to the base and look up from the tide pools at Baker's Beach or from a Frisbee toss at Crissy fields, both in the adjoining Presidio.

Japanese Tea Garden

Golden Gate Park

Lyon/Broadway Stairway

With more than 40 hills in seven square miles, no wonder San Francisco is home to some of the most scenic stairway hikes in the world. Climb the Lyon/Broadway stairway to heaven and see why the Pacific Heights neighborhood is so named. Reward yourself at the end of this five-story ascension with vim, vigor, and a bird's eye view of prime real estate rooftops, the Palace of Fine Arts, Alcatraz, and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Monterey State Historic Park

Visit Monterey 17-mile drive

Niebaum Coppola Estate Winery

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Palace of Fine Arts

If San Francisco had a palace, the beloved Palace of Fine Arts would be the place. Designed by Bay Area architect Bernard Maybeck to be a romanticized Roman ruin, San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts is surrounded by lush gardens and a lagoon and the whole dynamic has an otherworldly and transportive effect. Originally meant to be a temporary open-air art gallery for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibit, the Palace has been built and rebuilt, a testament to the love San Franciscans have for their ruddy masterpiece. While currently not a gallery, the Palace of Fine Arts' theater does host film festivals, concerts and performing arts as well as being home to the Exploratorium.