16th Avenue Tiled Steps
16th Avenue & Moraga Street, San Francisco
You're standing at the bottom of one hundred and sixty-three steps covered in seventy-five thousand hand-cut fragments of tile, mirror, and stained glass.
Balmy Alley Murals
Balmy Alley (between 24th and 25th Streets), San Francisco
Walk into this alley and every surface screams at you.
Camera Obscura
1096 Point Lobos Avenue, San Francisco
That giant camera-shaped building next to the Cliff House ruins is exactly what it looks like — a camera obscura, and it's one of the last functioning ones in the United States.
Coit Tower
1 Telegraph Hill Boulevard, San Francisco
This tower exists because of a woman who crashed a firemen's funeral when she was fifteen years old — and that was the most normal thing Lillie Hitchcock Coit ever did.
Cupid's Span
Rincon Park, The Embarcadero, San Francisco
That enormous bow and arrow buried in the grass along the waterfront — sixty feet tall, with the arrow pointing skyward and the bow half-submerged in the earth — is Cupid's Span.
Grace Cathedral
1100 California Street, San Francisco
This cathedral sits on land that once belonged to Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four railroad barons who built the Transcontinental Railroad.
Vaillancourt Fountain
Justin Herman Plaza, The Embarcadero, San Francisco
That massive concrete structure in the plaza — the one that looks like someone stacked brutalist building blocks during an earthquake — is the Vaillancourt Fountain, and it has been making people angry since the day it was unveiled in nineteen seventy-one.
Wave Organ
83 Green St, Embarcadero, San Francisco, 94111, United States
If you've made it out here to the end of this jetty, you're already doing better than most tourists.
Explore art in San Francisco
GPS-guided narration at every landmark. Tap a spot on the map, hear the story. Every fact verified.