"Cable Cars in the Bay City" San Francisco by shopgal

My favorite song: I left my Heart in San Francisco, then again, if you're going to SF, be sure to wear some flowers in your head :)

The Transamerica Pyramid had been the landmark of SF since 1968 although it's not longer owned the The Transamerica company.

The Transamerica Pyramid is located in the heart of the Montgomery Financial District at 600 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, California. It is a part of Transamerica Center (a complex that includes Two Transamerica Center and Transamerica Redwood Park) and encompasses nearly one city block.

Here're the list of places to visit in SF:
Alamo Square
The Castro District
Chinatown
Civic Center
Fillmore Street
Fisherman's Wharf
Haight-Ashbury
Hayes Valley
Japantown/Nihonmachi
Marina District
Mission District
Nob Hill
Noe Valley
North Beach/Little Italy
Pacific Heights
Richmond District
Sacramento Street/Presidio Heights
South of Market (SoMa) and City Front District
The Tenderloin
Union Square
Union Street
Western Addition

Mystery Spot

The Mystery Spot is an area about 150 feet in diameter located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California. Within the Mystery Spot you will be baffled as the laws of physics and gravity cease to exist.

Discovered in 1939 and opened to the public in 1940, the Mystery Spot has amazed and perplexed hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world. Many return again to experience the puzzling variations in gravity, perspective, height and more.

Theories: Flying saucer fans speculate that cones of metal were secretly brought here and buried in our earth as guidance systems for their spacecraft. Other theories about what causes the Mystery Spot include carbon dioxide seeping out of the earth, the “highest dielectric biocosmic radiation” known anywhere in the world, and radiesthesia... whatever the cause is, it remains a mystery.

Winchester House

Sarah Winchester was indeed an eccentric woman. Even the former president, Theodore Roosevelt was being sent away for not making an appointment to see her, and only guests who were invited were allowed to use the "main door".

In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a construction project of such magnitude that it was to occupy the lives of carpenters and craftsmen until her death thirty-eight years later. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. Sarah Winchester built a home that is an architectural marvel. Unlike most homes of its era, this 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators, and 47 fireplaces. From rambling roofs and exquisite hand inlaid parquet floors to the gold and silver chandeliers and Tiffany art glass windows, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy, and expense poured into each and every detail.

Number of rooms: 160

Cost: $5,500,000

Date of Contruction: 1884 - September 5, 1922 (38 Continuous years!)

Number of stories: prior to 1906 Earthquake - 7; presently 4

Number of acres: originally 161.919; presently 4

Number of basements: 2

Heating: Steam, forced air, fireplaces

Number of windows: frames 1,257, approx. 10,000

Number of doors: doorways 467 approx., 950 doors not including cabinet doors.

Number of fireplaces: 47 (gas, wood, or coal burning)

Number of chimneys: presently 17 with evidence of 2 others

Number of cars at her death: 2 (1 1917 Pierce Arrow Limousine & 1 1916 4 cyl. Buick truck)

Number of bedrooms: approx. 40

Number of kitchens: 5 or 6

Number of staircases: 40, total of stair steps - 367

Number of skylights: approx. 52

Number of gallons of paint required to paint entire home: over 20,000

Number of ballrooms: 2 (1 nearly complete and 1 under construction)

Blueprints available: No, Mrs. Winchester never had a master set of blueprints, but did sketch out individual rooms on paper and even tablecloths!

• Pros:Beautiful, cool, great dim sum!
• Cons:Too crowded, expensive parking, traffic jam
• In a nutshell:The fruittiest city in the whole wide world!