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Name	Category	Location

Alcatraz Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| The boat ride to the island is brief (15 minutes) but affords...	Architectural Sites, Jails	Fisherman's Wharf

Bank of America Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| The 52-story building of polished red granite and marble takes...	Architectural Sites	Financial District

Broadway and Webster Street estates Be the First to Rate It Map \| Broadway uptown, unlike its garish North Beach stretch, has plenty...	Architectural Sites	Pacific Heights

Chinatown Gate Be the First to Rate It Map \| This is the official entrance to Chinatown. Stone lions flank...	Architectural Sites	Chinatown

Chinese Six Companies Be the First to Rate It Map \| Once the White House of Chinatown, this striking building has...	Architectural Sites	Chinatown

Coit Tower Be the First to Rate It Map \| Whether you think it resembles a fire hose or something more...	Architectural Sites	North Beach

Franklin Street buildings Be the First to Rate It Map \| What at first looks like a stone facade on the Golden Gate Church...	Architectural Sites	Pacific Heights

Hallidie Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| Named for cable-car inventor Andrew S. Hallidie, this 1918 structure...	Architectural Sites	Union Square

Levi Strauss headquarters Be the First to Rate It Map \| The carefully landscaped complex appears so collegiate that it's...	Architectural Sites	North Beach

Maiden Lane Be the First to Rate It Map \| Known as Morton Street in the raffish Barbary Coast era, this...	Architectural Sites	Union Square

Old Chinese Telephone Exchange Be the First to Rate It Map \| After the 1906 earthquake, many Chinatown buildings were rebuilt...	Architectural Sites	Chinatown

Pacific Union Club Be the First to Rate It Map \| The former home of silver baron James Flood cost a whopping $1.5...	Architectural Sites	Nob Hill

Palace of Fine Arts Be the First to Rate It Map \| At first glance this stunning, rosy rococo palace seems to be...	Architectural Sites	Japantown

Red Victorian Peace Center Bed & Breakfast Be the First to Rate It Map \| By even the most generous accounts, the Summer of Love quickly...	Architectural Sites	The Haight

Sea Change Be the First to Rate It Map \| The 10-ton, 70-foot-tall sculpture, a bright-red steel work with...	Architectural Sites	SoMa

Sentinel Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| A striking triangular shape and a gorgeous green patina make...	Architectural Sites	North Beach

Transamerica Pyramid Be the First to Rate It Map \| It's neither owned by Transamerica nor is it a pyramid, but this...	Architectural Sites	Financial District

Vallejo Steps area Be the First to Rate It Map \| Several Russian Hill buildings survived the 1906 earthquake and...	Architectural Sites	Russian Hill

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