This half of Treasure Island was human-made. Treasure Island is half way across one of the longest bridges across the Bay.
The famed maximum security prison in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It’s no longer operational, but there are great tours.
Arguably an added cruelty, most prisons now have suicide nets strung between the balconies.
The wild sea lion colony downtown at Pier 39. They appeared for no known reason around the turn of the millennium and now number about 200, occupying floating boards placed there for them. You can watch them for hours; they’re fascinating :)
The Art Temple near the Golden Gate Bridge.
Diverting staggering amounts of wealth from the poor into grandiose architecture is no monopoly of Catholicism.
A world center for radicalism, the University of California, Berkeley, is hallowed ground, and very beautiful.
The deserts in San Francisco’s best vegan restaurant, the Millenium, are worth ordering extras and explaining to the waiter, “Sorry, we’re pigs.” “No, just very smart,” was the reply.
Those Californians (and even the occasional bear that wanders out of the Sierras) sure love their hot-tubs.
