Wave Organ
A 1986 sound sculpture by Peter Richards and George Gonzales on a jetty next to the St. Francis Yacht Club. Twenty-five PVC and concrete pipes turn wave action into low resonant tones. Free, open 24 hours, best at high tide.
Attraction Category: Quirky & Offbeat
Seward Street Slides
Two long concrete slides in Seward Mini Park, designed by 14-year-old Kim Clark in 1973. Free, open Tuesday through Sunday 10am to 5pm. Bring or grab cardboard.
Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company
A fortune cookie shop in a Chinatown alley, hand-folding cookies on motorized griddles since 1962. Owned by Kevin Chan. Free to watch; bags of flat unfolded cookies are $10.
Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Naturalized flock of cherry-headed conures that has lived on Telegraph Hill since the early 1990s. Best seen late afternoon near Coit Tower and the Filbert Steps. Free.
Peephole Cinema
Peephole in a wall at 280 Orange Alley, off 26th Street in the Mission, that screens curated short films on a 24/7 loop. One viewer at a time. Free.
Mrs. Doubtfire House
The Pacific Heights Victorian at 2640 Steiner Street used as the exterior in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire. Private residence; viewable from the public sidewalk.
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.
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.
