📸 Tourist in your own city

The famously crooked block, eight hydrangea switchbacks. Walk it once like a visitor.

A faux-Roman rotunda and swan lagoon from the 1915 fair. The classic photo stop.

The postcard row of colorful Victorians facing Alamo Square. Pure checklist.

Drive up for the postcard panorama of the whole grid laid out to the bay.

Climb Telegraph Hill for Depression-era murals and a full bay panorama up top.

An 1898 landmark with a soaring clock tower, now a gourmet marketplace.

Landmark 1916 marketplace of top local vendors plus a famed farmers market.

Rainforest dome, planetarium, aquarium, and living roof under one Renzo Piano roof.

Copper-clad park museum with a free observation tower for a sweeping city view.

Oceanfront bathhouse ruins beside a cliffside coastal trail. A must-see viewpoint.

The oldest Japanese garden in the US: koi, a drum bridge, and spring cherry blossoms.

A free museum in the working powerhouse where giant wheels pull the cables.

A neo-Gothic Nob Hill cathedral with walkable labyrinths. Free to enter.

A gleaming white Victorian glasshouse of orchids and jungle. A park photo-op.

One block of ever-changing political murals, the Mission's open-air gallery.

The oldest building in SF, the 1791 adobe mission that named the city.

A 1915 Beaux-Arts masterpiece with a dome taller than the US Capitol's.

A wooden staircase up to Coit Tower past flower gardens and wild parrots.

A lush garden stairway down Telegraph Hill past cottages and wild parrots.

A 1,017-acre green ribbon of meadows, lakes, and gardens across the city.

A 55-acre living museum of 8,000 plant species inside Golden Gate Park.

A giant Victorian pinhole camera projecting the live coast onto a table.

The world's last hand-operated cable cars. The Powell-Hyde line is the top tourist ride.

Lantern-strung streets and dim sum in the largest Chinatown outside Asia.

The landmark clifftop building over Ocean Beach, a classic coastal photo stop.

The 1960s counterculture hub, now vintage shops under colorful Victorians.

Waterfront promenade with the LED-lit Bay Bridge and Cupid's Span sculpture.