• Golden Gate Bridge
  

  
  The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait. Travel guides consider the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world". It opened in 1937 and had, until 1964, the longest suspension bridge main span in the world, at 4,200 ft (1,300 m). The bridge is 750 ft (230 m) high and have a sidewalk offering fantastic views of the city and the Bay
  
  

• San Francisco cable car
  

  
  An icon of San Francisco, the cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system. They are among the most significant tourist attractions in the city.
  
  

• Union Square
  

  
  The heart of San Francisco's downtown, the square is ground zero for big-name shopping: Macy's, Saks, Neiman-Marcus, and Tiffany line the square's sides. Palm trees and sculptures preside over the plaza, which has a café with outdoor seating and an open-air stage. The constant clang of cable cars traveling up and down Powell Street helps maintain a festive mood.
  
  

• Alcatraz Island
  

  
  Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco. It is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools and a seabird colony. During the 29 years it was in use, the jail held some of the most notorious criminals in American history. The penitentiary claimed that no prisoner successfully escaped.
  
  

• Golden Gate Park
  

  
  Golden Gate Park is the perfect playground for fast-paced types, laid-back dawdlers, and everyone in between. More than 1,000 acres, stretching from the Haight all the way to the windy Pacific coast, the park is a vast patchwork of woods, trails, lakes, lush gardens, sports facilities, museums—even a herd of buffalo.
  
  

• Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39
  

  
  One of the busiest and well known tourist attractions in San Francisco, Fisherman's Wharf is best known for being the location of Pier 39, the Cannery Shopping Center, Ghirardelli Square, a Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, the Aquarium of the Bay, and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Restaurants are aplenty in the area, serving fresh seafood, most notably Dungeness crab and clam chowder served in a sourdough bread bowl.
  
  

• Painted ladies Victorian houses
  

  
  San Francisco is famous for its charming colorful Victorian houses, or "Painted ladies." One of the best-known groups of "Painted Ladies" is the row of Victorian houses at Alamo Square park. It is sometimes known as "Postcard Row." The houses were built between 1892 and 1896
  
  

• Lombard Street
  

  
  Lombard Street, "the crookedest street in the world", is famous for having a steep, one-block section that consists of eight tight hairpin turns.
  
  

More attractions