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1. Lombard Street
For the ride of your life, follow in Steve McQueen's skid marks up and down Russian Hill. A trip over the precipice of Filbert or Jones will make you feel like you're falling off the edge of the world, and be sure to tackle crooked Lombard.
2. Macondray Lane
Duck into this secret garden lane to enjoy one of San Francisco's hidden gems.
3. San Francisco Art Institute
Contemplate two sweeping visions, either Diego Rivera's The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City or the priceless view of the city itself.

Map of Russian Hill

Essentially a tony residential neighborhood of spiffy pieds-à-terre, Victorian flats, Edwardian cottages, and boxlike condos, Russian Hill also has some of the city's loveliest stairway walks, hidden garden ways, and steepest streets -- brave drivers can really have some fun here -- not to mention those bay views. Locals flock to Polk and Hyde streets, the hill's main commercial avenues, for their excellent neighborhood eateries and fantastic window-shopping.