San Francisco has hundreds of public stairways climbing its hillsides. Filbert Steps to Coit Tower, the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, the Lyon Street Steps, and dozens more, often lined with garden plantings.
Balmy Alley has murals dating to the early 1970s. Clarion Alley’s project has cycled more than 700 murals since 1992. A self-guided walk through decades of Mission District street art.
The oldest Chinatown in North America. Walk the alleys (Waverly Place, Ross, Spofford) past the Tin How Temple, family-association buildings, and tea shops, not just Grant Avenue’s main strip.
A 1946 camera obscura at Lands End that projects the coastline onto a dish inside a small wooden shed. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Home of the San Francisco Giants since 2000. Waterfront stadium with McCovey Cove past right field and the Bay Bridge past center. Tickets $15 and up.
Fortune cookies folded by hand in a Ross Alley shop, operating since 1962.
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