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Grateful Dead House
710 Ashbury Street is one of the most legendary addresses in rock music history. This purple Victorian house was the communal home of the Grateful Dead from October 1966 to March 1968, during the peak of San Francisco's …
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Haight Ashbury
Haight-Ashbury is the San Francisco neighbourhood that gave birth to the 1960s counterculture, the Summer of Love, and some of the most influential rock music of the 20th century. Named after the intersection of Haight …
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Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park stretches 1,017 acres from the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood to the Pacific Ocean, making it one of the largest urban parks in the world and San Francisco's most important green space. The park was creat…
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Jimi Hendrix's House
At the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets, a red house at 1524A Haight Street carries one of San Francisco's most debated historical claims. A striking mural of Jimi Hendrix by graffiti artist Sean Griffin (painted in …
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The Panhandle
The Panhandle is one of San Francisco's oldest parks, born from an engineering experiment and a fight against urban sprawl. In 1870, the land that would become Golden Gate Park was nothing but shifting sand dunes. Willia…
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Cervantes Monument
Just east of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park stands a bronze tribute to one of literature's greatest creations. The Miguel de Cervantes Memorial, by sculptor Joseph Jacinto Mora, depicts Don Quixote and his loyal…
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Golden Gate Rose Garden
San Francisco went without a municipal rose garden until January 8, 1961, when the Golden Gate Rose Garden was finally dedicated in Golden Gate Park. The garden was designed by Parks Superintendent Roy Hudson and created…
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de Young Museum
The de Young Museum has been reborn from disaster more than once. It first opened in 1895 in an Egyptian Revival building constructed for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. Named after early San Fran…
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Japanese Tea Garden
The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park is the oldest public Japanese garden in the United States. It began life as a temporary exhibit at the 1894 World's Fair, built by Australian-born George Turner Marsh with Japa…
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Bush Street & Grant Avenue
The Dragon Gate at the intersection of Bush Street and Grant Avenue marks the southern entrance to San Francisco's Chinatown, the oldest and one of the most vibrant Chinese communities in North America. Built in 1969 as …
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Old St. Mary’s Cathedral
Old St. Mary's Cathedral on California Street at Grant Avenue is a Gold Rush-era survivor with a story that reads like a novel. Completed in 1854, this Gothic Revival church was the first cathedral in California built ex…
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Portsmouth Square
Portsmouth Square is where San Francisco began. Originally called Plaza de Yerba Buena in the early Mexican settlement, it was renamed after the USS Portsmouth, the American ship that captured the town and raised the fir…
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The Embarcadero and Ferry Building
The San Francisco Ferry Building is one of those rare landmarks that has died and been reborn. Completed in 1898 in Beaux-Arts style by architect A. Page Brown, the building's iconic 245-foot clock tower with its four 22…
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Wells Fargo Museum
The Wells Fargo Museum in San Francisco chronicles one of the most colorful chapters in American frontier history through the story of the company that connected the Gold Rush West to the rest of the world. Founded in 18…
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San Francisco French Quarter
Most people associate San Francisco with Chinatown or the Italian North Beach, but the city also had a thriving French Quarter that earned it the nickname "Paris of the Pacific." Around 1851, approximately 3,000 French i…
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Palace of Fine Arts
The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco's Marina District is a domed rotunda and curved colonnade beside a quiet lagoon, designed by Bernard Maybeck for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. It was built as …
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, usually called SFMOMA, is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the United States, at 151 3rd Street in the SoMa district of San Francisco. It was the first …
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Yerba Buena Gardens
Yerba Buena Gardens is a landscaped urban park and cultural complex in the SoMa district of San Francisco, set a short walk south of Market Street. It gives the busy downtown a green space with lawns, a memorial waterfal…
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Lotta's Fountain
Lotta's Fountain is a cast-iron fountain at the junction of Market, Kearny and Geary Streets in San Francisco, given to the city by the actress Lotta Crabtree in 1875. It is best known as the place where survivors gather…
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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, often shortened to YBCA, is a contemporary arts centre at 701 Mission Street in the SoMa district of San Francisco. It brings together gallery exhibitions, live performance and film in th…
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Alta Plaza Park
Alta Plaza Park is a hilltop public park in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. It is known for its steep, terraced stairs, its playground and tennis courts, and wide views over the city and the bay. It is…
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Lafayette Park
Lafayette Park is a hilltop public park in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, set on a full city block beside Washington Street. Its sloping lawns and mature trees are surrounded by some of the city's grandest houses, which…
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San Francisco Golden Gate Park: Prison Break
68 min · EN
Places on this quest: Japanese Tea Garden · de Young Museum
San Francisco Haight Ashbury: Hippie Culture
83 min · EN
Places on this quest: The Panhandle · Jimi Hendrix's House
Chinatown Highlights: Warrior Cat, San Francisco
134 min · EN
Places on this quest: Portsmouth Square · Old St. Mary’s Cathedral
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