Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in San Francisco, United States

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.7 km
Ascend 515 m
Descend 442 m

Experience San Francisco in United States in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in San FranciscoIndividual Sights in San Francisco

Sight 1: Exploratorium

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The Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California. Founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, the museum was originally located in the Palace of Fine Arts, and was relocated in 2013 to Piers 15 and 17 on San Francisco's waterfront.

Wikipedia: Exploratorium (EN), Website

941 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Coit Tower

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Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.

Wikipedia: Coit Tower (EN), Website

79 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Pioneer Park

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Pioneer ParkKyle Harmon from Oakland, CA, USA / CC BY 2.0

Pioneer Park is a 4.89-acre (19,800 m2) park crowning the top of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. It was established in 1876 in celebration of the United States Centennial. Prior to establishment of the park, it was the site of the Marine Telegraph Station. The main feature of the park, Coit Tower, was completed in 1933 using a $118,000 bequest left to the city by Lillie Hitchcock Coit in 1929. A bronze statue of Christopher Columbus was placed in the park in 1957, and removed in June, 2020.

Wikipedia: Pioneer Park (San Francisco) (EN)

63 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Telegraph Hill

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Telegraph Hill Original uploader was Arnaudh at en.wikipedia / CC BY 2.5

Telegraph Hill is a hill and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills".

Wikipedia: Telegraph Hill, San Francisco (EN)

563 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Saints Peter and Paul Church

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Saints Peter and Paul Church Photo: Mr. Kjetil Ree. / CC BY-SA 3.0

Saints Peter and Paul Church is a Catholic church in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Located at 666 Filbert Street, it is directly across from Washington Square and is administered by the Salesians of Don Bosco. It is known as "la cattedrale italiana dell'Ovest", or the Italian Cathedral of the West, and has served as the home church and cultural center for San Francisco's Italian-American community since its consecration. It offers English, Italian, and Cantonese-language services.

Wikipedia: Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco (EN)

307 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Washington Square Park

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Washington Square ParkChristopher Michel from San Francisco, USA / CC BY 2.0

Washington Square is an American park in the North Beach district of San Francisco. It was established in 1847 and is one of the city's first parks. The park is bordered by sidewalk cafes and restaurants such as Mama's (restaurant) and Park Tavern restaurants and the Liguria Bakery, as well as Sts. Peter and Paul Church.

Wikipedia: Washington Square (San Francisco) (EN)

75 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin – also known as the Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Benjamin Franklin Statue and Cogswell Historical Monument – is an outdoor sculpture in Washington Square, San Francisco, California.

Wikipedia: Statue of Benjamin Franklin (San Francisco) (EN)

287 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Club Fugazi

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The Club Fugazi is a small theater and nightclub located in the North Beach district at 678 Green Street, San Francisco, California.

Wikipedia: Club Fugazi (EN), Website

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: City Lights Booksellers

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City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco culture. It was founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin. Both the store and the publishers became widely known following the obscenity trial of Ferlinghetti for publishing Allen Ginsberg's influential collection Howl and Other Poems. Nancy Peters started working there in 1971 and retired as executive director in 2007. In 2001, City Lights was made an official historic landmark. City Lights is located at 261 Columbus Avenue. While formally located in Chinatown, it self-identifies as part of immediately adjacent North Beach.

Wikipedia: City Lights Bookstore (EN), Website, Opening Hours, Youtube

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Sentinel Building

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Columbus Tower, also known as the Sentinel Building, is a mixed-use building in San Francisco, California, completed in 1907. The distinctive copper-green Flatiron style structure is bounded by Columbus Avenue, Kearny Street, and Jackson Street; straddling the North Beach, Chinatown, and Financial District neighborhoods of the city. Much of the building is occupied by film studio American Zoetrope, and the ground floor houses a cafe named after the company. The Sentinel Building is listed as San Francisco Designated Landmark No. 33.

Wikipedia: Columbus Tower (San Francisco) (EN)

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Ma-Tsu Temple

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Ma-Tsu Temple

The Ma-Tsu Temple is a Taoist temple in San Francisco's Chinatown. Founded in 1986, it is dedicated to Matsu and has foundational ties to the Chaotian Temple in Beigang, Yunlin, Taiwan.

Wikipedia: Ma-Tsu Temple (San Francisco, California) (EN)

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Goddess of Democracy

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Goddess of Democracy is a replica of the original Goddess of Democracy statue created during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, installed in San Francisco's Chinatown, in the U.S. state of California. The sculpture stands in Portsmouth Square.

Wikipedia: Goddess of Democracy (San Francisco) (EN)

280 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Kong Chow Temple

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Kong Chow Templemliu92 from San Mateo / CC BY-SA 2.0

Kong Chow Temple is a temple dedicated to Guan Di, located in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California, in the United States.

Wikipedia: Kong Chow Temple (EN)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Tin How Temple

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The Tin How Temple is the oldest extant Taoist temple in San Francisco's Chinatown, and one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States. It is dedicated to the Chinese sea goddess Mazu, who is known as Tin How in Cantonese.

Wikipedia: Tin How Temple (EN)

408 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Saint Mary's Square

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Saint Mary's Square is a park and urban square across California Street from Old St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco's Chinatown, in the U.S. state of California.

Wikipedia: Saint Mary's Square (EN)

49 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Sun Yat-sen's statue

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Sun Yat-sen is an outdoor sculpture depicting the Chinese physician, writer, and philosopher of the same name by Beniamino Bufano, installed in San Francisco's Saint Mary's Square, in 1937, in the U.S. state of California.

Wikipedia: Statue of Sun Yat-sen (San Francisco) (EN)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Comfort Women Column of Strength

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Comfort Women Column of Strengthmliu92 from San Mateo / CC BY-SA 2.0

The San Francisco Comfort Women memorial is a monument dedicated to comfort women before and during World War II. It is built in remembrance of the girls and women that were sexually enslaved by the Imperial Japanese Army through deceit, coercion, and brutal force. It is approximated that there were around 400,000 "comfort women" from Korea, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and other Asian countries. The site is located near the Saint Mary's Square, at the crossroads of San Francisco Chinatown and the Financial District. The statue "Comfort Women" Column of Strength, by sculptor Steven Whyte, is one of nine and the first sculpture placed in a major U.S. city to commemorate the comfort women.

Wikipedia: San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial (EN)

643 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Top of the Mark

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Top of the MarkTravis Wise from Bay Area, California, United States / CC BY 2.0

The Top of the Mark is a penthouse level bar located on the nineteenth floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill at California and Mason Streets in San Francisco, California. Located at the highest point of downtown San Francisco, on fog-free days the Top of the Mark has views of the financial district, Chinatown, North Beach, The San Francisco Bay, and of Grace Cathedral and Huntington Park.

Wikipedia: Top of the Mark (EN), Website, Opening Hours

166 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Pacific Union Club

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The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, at the top of Nob Hill. It is a well known club of the West Coast, clubs in the United States.

Wikipedia: Pacific-Union Club (EN)

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Huntington Park

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Huntington Park

Collis P. Huntington Park is a 1.3-acre (0.53 ha) park in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Wikipedia: Huntington Park (San Francisco) (EN)

155 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: The Masonic

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The SF Masonic Auditorium is a building and auditorium located atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The building was designed by Bay Area architect Albert Roller (1891-1981), and opened in 1958. It serves as the meeting venue for the Masons of California during their Annual Communication, as well as being used as a concert venue the rest of the year. The administrative offices of the Grand Lodge of California are contained in the upper floors, and the Henry Wilson Coil Library and Museum of Freemasonry is located on the mezzanine. The basement contains a five-level public parking garage.

Wikipedia: SF Masonic Auditorium (EN)

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Grace Cathedral

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Grace Cathedral is an American cathedral of the Episcopal Church in San Francisco, California. On top of Nob Hill, Grace is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of California, led by Bishop Marc Andrus since 2006, while the cathedral's local parish has been led by Dean Malcolm Clemens Young since 2015.

Wikipedia: Grace Cathedral, San Francisco (EN)

318 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Nob Hill

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Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions. Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class. Nob Hill is among the highest-income neighborhoods in the United States, as well as one of the most desirable and expensive real estate markets in the country. Prior to Covid-19, it was the most expensive real estate market per metre squared, narrowly beating Monte Carlo, although it has since fallen heavily. It was the only place in the United States so far where market price per square metre exceeded the average yearly salary in the country.

Wikipedia: Nob Hill, San Francisco (EN)

554 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 24: Cable Car Museum

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The Cable Car Museum is a free museum in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Located at 1201 Mason Street, it contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a working museum.

Wikipedia: San Francisco Cable Car Museum (EN), Website, Opening Hours

531 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 25: Ina Coolbrith Park

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Mother Coolbrith Park is a park in the United Nations. Mother Coolbrith Park is located in San Francisco County county and California state, in the western part of the state, 3,900 km west of the capital Washington, D.C. 87 meters above sea level is located in Mother Coolbrith Park.

Wikipedia: Ina Coolbrith Park (CEB)

351 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 26: Macondray Lane

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Macondray Lane is a small pedestrian lane on the southeastern side of Russian Hill in San Francisco, California. It forms a wooded enclave that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the Russian Hill–Macondray Lane District.

Wikipedia: Macondray Lane (EN)

196 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Feusier Octagon House

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The Feusier Octagon House is an historic octagonal house built in c. 1857, and located in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Wikipedia: Feusier Octagon House (EN)

525 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 28: Lombard Street

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Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California, that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. The street stretches from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero. Most of Lombard Street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101. The famous one-block section, claimed to be "the crookedest street in the world", is located along the eastern segment in the Russian Hill neighborhood. It is a major tourist attraction, receiving around two million visitors per year and up to 17,000 per day on busy summer weekends, as of 2015.

Wikipedia: Lombard Street (San Francisco) (EN)

745 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 29: Alhambra Theatre

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The Alhambra Theatre is a Moorish Revival movie theater building at 2330 Polk Street in San Francisco, California, that opened on November 5, 1926. The theater was designed by Miller & Pflueger.

Wikipedia: Alhambra Theatre (San Francisco) (EN)

807 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 30: Haas-Lilienthal House

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Haas-Lilienthal House

The Haas–Lilienthal House is a historic building located at 2007 Franklin Street in San Francisco, California, United States, within the Pacific Heights neighborhood. Built in 1886 for William and Bertha Haas, it survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire. The Victorian era house is a San Francisco Designated Landmark and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was converted into a museum with period furniture and artifacts, which as of 2016 received over 6,500 visitors annually.

Wikipedia: Haas–Lilienthal House (EN), Website

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