Table of contents

Foreword

1_140 New Montgomery | San Francisco
It’s all about communication

2_826 Valencia | San Francisco
Reading, writing, and "Ahoy, matey!"

3_1450 Noriega Street | San Francisco
Where the heiress robbed a bank

4_Alhambra Theater | San Francisco
A cinematic workout

5_Anchor Brewing Company | San Francisco
Born and brewed in San Francisco

6_The Antique Vibrator Museum | San Francisco
A history of good vibrations

7_Arion Press | San Francisco
Lost and foundry

8_The Armory | San Francisco
Where kink is king

9_The Audium | San Francisco
Seeing with your ears

10_Balmy Alley Murals | San Francisco
Struggle and change

11_Bar Agricole | San Francisco
Keeping it local

12_The Battery Club | San Francisco
Old world, new school

13_The Bay Lights | San Francisco
The Bay Bridge gets its bling

14_The Beach & Park Chalet | San Francisco
Upstairs, downstairs, in Golden Gate Park

15_The Beat Museum | San Francisco
Still on the road

16_Billionaires’ Row | San Francisco
Life on the Gold Coast

17_Bliss Dance | San Francisco
Forty feet of female energy

18_The Bohemian Club | San Francisco
A private place for powerful men

19_Bourbon & Branch | San Francisco
The password-protected speakeasy

20_Buena Vista Park | San Francisco
A magical hush

21_Building One | San Francisco
A sinking treasure

22_Building 95 | San Francisco
If a tree falls in the forest …

23_Candlestick Park | San Francisco
Long live the ’stick

24_Casa Cielo | San Francisco
"Sunny Jim" Rolph’s love nest

25_Chinese Telephone Exchange | San Francisco
1500 names on the tip of the tongue

26_Clarion Alley | San Francisco
These walls can talk

27_The Cloud Forest | San Francisco
Communing with nature on Mount Sutro

28_The Condor Club | San Francisco
Death by piano

29_Conservatory of Flowers | San Francisco
Home to the beautiful and the bizarre

30_Cow Palace | Daly City
From moo to Who

31_Creativity Explored | San Francisco
Art for all

32_Crissy Field | San Francisco
From airfield to House of Air

33_Dashiell Hammett’s Apartment | San Francisco
Where the Maltese Falcon took flight

34_The F-Line | San Francisco
A journey back in time

35_Flora Grubb Gardens | San Francisco
Coffee and air plants, anyone?

36_The Fly-Casting Pools | San Francisco
Angling for a good time

37_Fog Bridge | San Francisco
A walk in the clouds at the Exploratorium

38_Forbes Island & The Taj Mahal | San Francisco
Boats by any other name

39_Foreign Cinema | San Francisco
Dinner and a show

40_Fort Funston | San Francisco
Where humans take to the sky

41_The Frank Lloyd Wright Building | San Francisco
A mid-century jewel in the Barbary Coast

42_Gallery 6 | San Francisco
The ghosts of Vertigo at the Legion of Honor

43_The Gardens of Alcatraz | San Francisco
Planting life on "the Rock"

44_Glen Canyon Park | San Francisco
A time machine to the San Francisco of yore

45_Glide Memorial Church | San Francisco
Can I get an amen?

46_Grace Cathedral Labyrinths | San Francisco
A maze for meditation

47_The Green Roof | San Francisco
The Academy of Sciences goes "underground"

48_The Hallidie Building | San Francisco
Ahead of its time

49_Headlands Center for the Arts | Sausalito
Using creativity as a weapon

50_Heath Ceramics | San Francisco
Very "Made in America"

51_Hunter S. Thompson’s House | San Francisco
Fear & Loathing in San Francisco

52_Hunter’s Point | San Francisco
A flourishing artist colony in a shipyard

53_Ingleside Terrace Sundial | San Francisco
Time is on its side

54_Institute of Illegal Images | San Francisco
A "trip" to the museum

55_The Interval at Long Now | San Francisco
For thinkers and drinkers

56_Kabuki Springs & Spa | San Francisco
Wet, naked, and hot

57_Lands End | San Francisco
A mystical walk through history

58_The Lefty O’Doul Bridge | San Francisco
In memory of a hometown hitter

59_LeRoy King Carousel | San Francisco
Round and round we go

60_Levi Strauss & Co. | San Francisco
Birthplace of the 501

61_Lyon Street Steps | San Francisco
Where health meets wealth

62_Macondray Lane | San Francisco
Tales of the city

63_The Malloch Building | San Francisco
For those who appreciate curves

64_Maritime Museum | San Francisco
A "shipshape" exhibition space

65_Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | San Francisco
A fountain for reflection in Yerba Buena Gardens

66_Mavericks | Half Moon Bay
A surfer’s nirvana

67_Mechanics’ Institute | San Francisco
Home to books and rooks

68_Mission Creek Houseboats | San Francisco
Islands in the storm

69_Mission Dolores Cemetery | San Francisco
Where the bodies are buried

70_The Monastery Stones | San Francisco
Relics in the Botanical Garden

71_Moraga Street Steps | San Francisco
Stairway to Heaven

72_Musée Mécanique | San Francisco
A penny arcade on the Embarcadero

73_National Cemetery Overlook | San Francisco
A graveyard with a view

74_Nimitz Mansion | San Francisco
Secret views from Yerba Buena

75_The Observation Tower | San Francisco
A castle in the trees at the de Young

76_Ocean Beach | San Francisco
Hanging ten on city waves

77_ODC | San Francisco
Put on your dancin’ shoes

78_Old Skool Café | San Francisco
Serving up second chances

79_The Parrots of Telegraph Hill | San Francisco
As free as a bird

80_Patricia’s Green | San Francisco
From parkway to park

81_The Phoenix Hotel | San Francisco
Rock ’n’ roll crash pad

82_Pier 24 Photography | San Francisco
A private collection goes public

83_Pier 70 | San Francisco
Industrial ruins with a waterfront view

84_Pink Triangle Park | San Francisco
The only memorial of its kind

85_Point Bonita Lighthouse | Sausalito
Overlooking an underwater graveyard

86_Portals of the Past | San Francisco
A bit of history and the occult on Lloyd Lake

87_The Presidio Pet Cemetery | San Francisco
Final resting place for the furry and feathered

88_Project Artaud | San Francisco
The artist factory

89_The Ramp | San Francisco
Fog City’s hangover cure

90_The Rock Colony | San Francisco
Where music legends lived and "free loved"

91_The Rousseaus | San Francisco
One man, many facades

92_Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church | San Francisco
Worship in the house of jazz

93_Saints Peter and Paul Church | San Francisco
Home base of a neighborhood

94_Sam’s Grill | San Francisco
A historic chophouse with a fishy past

95_San Francisco Art Institute | San Francisco
All hail Diego Rivera

96_Slovenian Hall | San Francisco
The past is present here

97_Stow Lake | San Francisco
The ghost of the White Lady

98_Sutro Heights Park | San Francisco
A garden of earthly delight

99_Swedenborgian Church | San Francisco
Sacred space hidden in plain sight

100_Tenderloin National Forest | San Francisco
A quiet sliver of green amid the chaos

101_Tessie Wall Townhouse | San Francisco
Home of a trigger-happy madam

102_Tin How Temple | San Francisco
The How of Tao

103_Tosca Café | San Francisco
Still cool (thanks to Sean Penn)

104_Toy Boating on Spreckels Lake | San Francisco
It’s anything but child’s play

105_Transamerica Redwood Park | San Francisco
Secrets of the pyramid

106_UCSF Medical Center Park | San Francisco
Public art en plein air

107_Van Ness Auto Row | San Francisco
When cars were kings

108_Vermont Street | San Francisco
The thrill of S curves

109_Warrior Surfer Mural | San Francisco
Reflection of a neighborhood

110_Wave Organ | San Francisco
Shhh … listen

111_Wood Line | San Francisco
The art of sticks and stones

Gallery

Maps