Alcatraz
San Francisco, Alcatraz island 
The most famous prison in the United States and perhaps the world as a whole, Alcatraz is not only a correctional institution (by the way, which has been functioning for more than 30 years only as a museum), but also a small picturesque island in 15 minutes' march from San Francisco's wharf.
Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco 
The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous landmark of the city, the symbol of San Francisco and the entire Pacific coast of the United States. Hovering over the bay, the handsome man managed to "light up" in a good hundred films and acquire his own Internet site.
Ripley Museum "If you want - believe it or not!
San Francisco, Jefferson street 175 
As the official slogan of the museum says, this is the only place in San Francisco (and, I think, in all the US) where you can see a dried female torso, a mummified leg of an Egyptian mummy, pictures made of a tape recorder, and an elephant about two trunks
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, 3rd street, 151 
Museum of Contemporary Art in San Francisco can be called the main and most visited museum of the city. In addition to the vast collection of works of art from 19-21 centuries with more than 29,000 works, the museum is notable for its ultra-modern building.
Union Square in San Francisco
San Francisco, Union square 
San Francisco Entertainment and Commercial Center, Union Square is the focus of high-end boutiques for renowned designers, gourmet restaurants and trendy nightclubs. If your goal is entertainment, you can not leave the Union Square at all.
San Francisco Cable Trolls
San Francisco 
An amazing vehicle that with the same interest residents and guests of San Francisco, cable trams, it seems, teleported to a super modern megapolis straight from the 19th century. The old wagons have been regularly cruising the streets of Fran for the second century
Lombard Street
San Francisco, Lombard street 
Eight steep turns on the site The Russian hill, 400 meters long and the slope of the surface almost to 30 degrees, made Lombard Street the most photographed street of San Frans.
Museum of Asian Art in San Francisco
San Francisco, Larkin street 200 
Museum of Asian Art in San Fra Cisco - the largest museum of the New World devoted exclusively to the art of Asia. Its extensive collection includes more than 15,000 exhibits from India, China, Japan, Indonesia and other Asian regions.
Museum of the California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, Music Concourse drive 55 
Occupying an area of 4000 square meters. the museum gives the most complete picture of the development of life on the planet Earth since its inception and tells about the diversity of the existing ecosystems
Museum de Young
San Francisco, Hagiwara Tea Garden 50 
Magnificent collections of anthropological artifacts from which to trace the history of mankind, plus an excellent collection of American art from the 19th to 20th centuries is the main reason why the de Young Museum is one of the most visited museums in San Francisco co.
Wells Fargo Museum
San Francisco, Montgomery street 420 
Much of the Wells Fargo Museum exposition is dedicated to the glorious years of the Gold Rush. Among the most interesting exhibits - samples of nuggets from different deposits, tools for gold mining, clothing, footwear and household items of gold miners.
Pierce-39
San Francisco, Pier 39 
Popular area of San Francisco Pierce-39, as the name implies, is located in the bay, on the site of the former piers, directly opposite the island of Alcatraz. At Piers-39 there are many shops, restaurants and cafes, attractions and entertainment centers.
Fisherman's wharf San Francisco
San Francisco, Fisherman's Wharf 
Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco is the main coastal tourist area of the city with a lot of entertainment. Here the way of life, the gastronomic traditions and the freaks, invariably bringing in atmosphere of a pier a note of creative madness.
Twin Peaks
San Francisco, Twin Peaks 
Famous first of all for the cult series of the nineties, the Twin Peaks twin hills rise above San Francisco and the harbor , in foggy days hiding in the cloudy haze. From the Twin Peaks observation deck, there is a dizzying view of the city and the water area of the bay.
Haight-Ashbury
San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury 
The glorious district of San Francisco Haight-Ashbury went down in history in 1967, the hot summer of which Here gathered about a hundred thousand hippies to celebrate the famous Summer of Love. Today Haight-Ashbury is still full of life, a vibrant and boiling San Francisco area.
Chinatown San Francisco
San Francisco, Chinatown 
Chinatown San Francisco is the largest place for compact living of Chinese outside of the homeland. The history of the district has more than 150 years, and today in 24 quarters of Chinatown there are permanently about 200 thousand citizens of the Celestial Empire.
Exploratorium
San Francisco, Pier 15 
Neskuchnaya Science - the slogan of the "Explorer" museum, located on the 15th Pier of the San Francisco Harbor. Created by the genius of the famous physicist Franz Oppenheimer and discovered in 1969, the Exploratory is simply and fascinatingly telling about the design of the universe.
The reckless atmosphere of dissimilarity and fun is what primarily comes to San Francisco. However, it would be wrong to say that there is nothing to look at here. Let Frisco be far from such monsters of the American "excursion" as New York or Los Angeles - the attentive and interested traveler will find what to do, in isolation from bars, nightclubs and other dances in laser light.
Even public transport San -Francisco deserves attention not only as a means of moving around the city - historical cable trams regularly walk the streets from the distant year of 1873.
The general portrait of the sights of San Francisco with rough smears - several popular tourist places , with knitted with the ocean: the Golden Gate Bridge , Alcatraz prison , Angel Island and the old shipyards , turned into the center of cultural life; the magnificent Museum of Contemporary Art , tribute to nature - a spacious and well-kept park Union plus the wine-producing expanses of the Napa Valley on the road (yes , the best American wines are from here) , finally - the indispensable Chinatown (no less interesting , @ than Los Angeles) and evidence of the city's turbulent modern history - the Haight-Ashbury district , where the hippie movement originated By the way, even public transport of San Francisco deserves attention not only as a means of moving around the city - historical cable trams Ai regularly walk the streets from the distant year 1873 !
The excursion infrastructure in "San Frans" is developed "with a bang": public transport stops are located just beside the sights - so despite the long distances in the city and not too comfortable it location on the hills, visit museums and inspect buildings can be without much physical effort.