Aquatic Park Tombstones
The seawall at Aquatic Park is built with real tombstones from San Francisco’s relocated 19th-century cemeteries. Names and dates still visible in the concrete if you look closely.
Activity Type: Quirky & Offbeat
Cloudflare Lava Lamps
Cloudflare’s SoMa lobby at 101 Townsend Street displays a wall of about 100 lava lamps. A camera records the wax motion to help generate cryptographic random numbers. Free, weekday business hours.
LeRoy King Carousel
A 1906 hand-carved carousel by the creator of Coney Island’s first carousel. Roughly 65 wooden animals inside a glass pavilion at Yerba Buena Gardens. $3 a ride.
Legs of Haight Street
Giant fishnet-stocking legs in red high heels jut from a second-story window above Piedmont Boutique on Haight Street. The legs have been there since 1995. A 30-second photo stop.
Spark Social SF
An outdoor food truck park in Mission Bay rotating from a pool of over 200 Bay Area trucks. Permanent bar, four fire pits, and lawn games near Chase Center.
Big Eye Keane Paintings
Margaret Keane’s big-eyed paintings were one of the biggest art phenomena of the 1960s, sold from a San Francisco gallery under her husband’s name. The fraud unraveled in a courtroom paint-off in 1986.
Free Gold Watch
A screen printing shop on Waller Street that also runs a pinball arcade in the back. About 60 machines, 50 cents to $1 a game, one block south of Haight Street.
1908 Cistern Circles
Over 170 gold-painted or brick circles on San Francisco streets mark underground cisterns built after the 1906 earthquake. Each holds 75,000 to 200,000 gallons of emergency firefighting water, and they’re still in active use.
Vermont Street
Potrero Hill’s Vermont Street has seven switchbacks between 20th and 22nd Streets. Site of the annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race every Easter Sunday.
