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The new California Academy of Sciences has risen on the same site of the former Academy in Golden Gate Park. The design required the demolition of most of the 11 existing buildings, built between...

Completed in 1995, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (also known as SFMOMA) marks the first time Mario Botta designed a building in the United States. It became an instant architectural landmark...

The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco is somewhat contained within the existing structure of an old power substation. With it's nearby proximity to SFMOMA, the CJM is gradually turning this...

The M. H. de Young Museum sites atop the site of the old museum which was severely damaged in San Francisco earthquake of 1989. The building depicts this fracture not only in it's form, but also in...

Standing 71 metres tall, the San Francisco Federal Building was completed in 2007 and is located in the SoMA area of San Francisco. Gray concrete walls are juxtaposed with custom, zig-zagged '9Wood'...

Built in 1933 by Lillie Hitchcock Coit as a memorial to volunteer firemen, Coit Tower is a round stone tower situated atop of Telegraph Hill, North Beach. From here you can have panoramic views of all the city, from Golden Gate to Embarcadero and a privileged view of downtown with the Transamerica Building on first line.

Inside the tower, while you wait for your turn to get in the elevator, you'll find big and beautiful colorful murals depicting day to day life in California.

Mission Dolores have standing there even before San Francisco. The church and the cemetery, where you can find the California first governor grave among the tombs of young irish pioneers, was built in 1776 by Native American at the behest of Fray Junípero Serra, a franciscan responsible for California evangelization.

Is one of the most remarkable and picturesque places in San Francisco, and it's near Dolores Park, a beautiful and steep spot from where you can see the downtown skyline.