Litmaps · Discover SF

A home museum holding the world's largest collection of LSD blotter art. Wait, that exists?

Pitch-black theater where 176 speakers move sound around 49 seated listeners. Genuinely surreal.

A wave-activated acoustic sculpture whose pipes gurgle and hiss with the tides.

A geodesic maze you crawl through in total darkness, navigating only by touch.

An ornate 1898 domed rotunda holding thousands of cremation urns in stained-glass niches.

Tiki kitsch in a hotel basement with an indoor lagoon and a thunderstorm every half hour.

Curiosity shop of taxidermy, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A Norman stone castle from 1870 with a brewery basement fed by a spring. Wait, that exists?

A 1901 bronze of five nude muscular men straining over a giant metal punch press.

Two steep concrete slides hidden in a pocket park, fast enough to need a cardboard sled.

A 100-foot spire of lashed cypress trunks rising from a forest of replanted trees.

A sinuous serpentine line of eucalyptus branches snaking across the forest floor.

Victorian bathhouse ruins crumbling into the sea at Lands End, pure unrepeatable San Francisco.

Telegraph Hill's WPA-mural tower, a true SF signature carved into the skyline.

Garden stairway down Telegraph Hill past cottages and the wild parrots only SF has.

The 1,017-acre green spine that defines how San Francisco lives outdoors.

Cliffside remains of Sutro's estate above Ocean Beach, a quintessential local sunset spot.

A misty eucalyptus cloud forest hidden in the city's center, unmistakably SF.

1898 clock-tower landmark reborn as the city's beloved gourmet marketplace.

Victorian pinhole camera at the edge of the continent, a surviving SF original.

Golden Gate Park's living museum of 8,000 species across SF's microclimates.

Hidden concrete hill slides locals grew up on, a neighborhood SF secret.

1901 bronze of straining ironworkers, a downtown relic of old industrial SF.