San Francisco travel guide

Sure, this is one of the biggest tourist attractions to San Francisco, if not the entire United States. Not exactly an original find. But the two hours I spent in this park were two of the most delightful hours I'd spent in all of San Francisco. Parts of this park can be quite busy, but it's so massive (the park covers 1,017 acres) that you can easily get away from everything. In fact, you can find nooks in this park where you can sit for hours and not see a single other person.

City Lights is one of the landmarks in San Francisco. An independent bookstore specialized in world literature, arts, politics and alternative culture. If you love books, this is one of the bookstores in the world to visit.

Looking for cemeteries in San Francisco? Good luck! There are only two, but historically there were many more, all of which were exhumed in their entirety (or as best as they could) and moved to other places like Daly City, and Colma, which has more than a thousand buried bodies for every living person residing there.
This gorgeous and small Columbarium is one of the few ones that survived the massive exportation of SF's dead for the importance of the people whose remains are held there.

This park offers an incredibly steep climb up to some of the best views in San Francisco. You can easily see all the way to Oakland and watch the freight ships come in and out of the bay, and unlike Twin Peaks it's not so windy. The park is not lit at night, but if you go with a friend it can be a nice and creepy walk up to the top. Beware there are folks who sleep there and it's a cruising site.
Look for the broken gravestones that line the paths from the exodus of the dead in the early 1900s.

This website lists upcoming music shows and concerts from extremely independent to mainstream in the bay area. Tends to focus more on rock and its offshoots than hip-hop or rap, but you can find some of that here too. Great for finding punk or indie shows.

You can also find a printed version of this list in a teeny tiny font in most record stores and in some venues.

Known locally as "The List"