Albion Castle
A stone castle built in 1870 for a brewery, sitting on a hill in Hunter’s Point with hand-carved caves and natural springs underneath. Visits by appointment only.
Attraction Category: Quirky & Offbeat
Presidio Pet Cemetery
A half-acre pet cemetery in the Presidio with hundreds of graves dating to the 1950s. Headstones range from military-formal to deeply personal.
Loved to Death
A Haight Street curiosity shop selling oddities, antique medical instruments, Victorian mourning jewelry, and death-themed art. Dark, curated, and wholly distinctive.
Isotope Comics Toilet Museum
An independent Hayes Valley comic shop with original artwork painted on toilet seats by comic book artists from around the world. Free to view, wonderfully weird.
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.
Cloudflare Lava Lamps
A wall of 100 lava lamps in Cloudflare’s SoMa lobby generates randomness used to encrypt internet traffic. Five-minute visit to see a retro novelty item doing serious cryptographic work.
Golden Gate Park Bison Paddock
A herd of American bison has lived in Golden Gate Park since 1891. Small paddock in the western half of the park, free to see from the fence along JFK Drive.
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. $4 a ride.
Buena Vista Park Tombstones
San Francisco’s oldest park has 19th-century cemetery headstones built into its footpaths. Fragments of names and dates visible in the stone borders, repurposed when the city moved its dead to Colma.
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.