Love good food but also looking for a photo op? We're sharing our list of the Most Instagrammable San Francisco restaurants to visit.

Where to stay in San Francisco? To make your trip easier, we've compiled the best areas and handpicked the best hotels in San Francisco.

San Francisco Noir | Fred Lyon | Princeton Architectural Press | 224 Pages | 2017 “San Francisco has always teetered on the brink facing the vastness of the Pacific Ocean as it clings perilou…

There are many things to do at the Presidio Park of San Francisco. Enjoy military history, Disney history experience, and views of the Golden Gate.

You've got the date, now you need somewhere to go! There's something for everyone on this list of creative San Francisco date ideas.

This itinerary for 4 days in San Francisco will show you the highlights of the City by the Bay and other fun places in the Bay Area.

Bohemia and the bay.

Ever wondered what may be lurking underneath your feet when walking through San Francisco's historic financial district? It's pretty fascinating.

The most intriguing historic sights in San Francisco, from hidden Prohibition cocktail bars to Marilyn Monroe’s secret lover’s escape route

A San Francisco Weekend for Foodies: We are small. 7 miles by 7 miles, but packed with great things to eat, drink and do. Especially eat!

We're pleased as punch to present the first entry in an ongoing series titled Hidden History, where Curbed Contributor Alex Bevk highlights a San Francisco location with a secret past. Maybe it’s...

These fascinating historical sites will take you back in time. If you’re a history lover living in the Bay Area, you’ll know that it’s full of amazing stories that have fallen through the cracks over time. Although many historic sites have been built over or otherwise erased from the city’s landscape, some of these gems […]

The first time the words “San Francisco Sound” showed up in the San Francisco...

Starting with an early picture of a gang of badass gold prospectors who put this beautiful Northern California city on the map, this ambitious and immersive photographic history of San Francisco takes a winding tour through the city from the mid–nineteenth century to the present day. Enjoy eye-catching views of the city’s most enduring landmarks and symbols: the Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, the picturesque trams that wind up and down the famously steep hills, the popular waterfront, its beautiful bay, and its spectacular cityscapes and vistas. San Francisco’s counterculture movements that shaped our collective consciousness are also featured prominently: the beats of North Beach, the hippies of Haight-Ashbury, the gay communities of Castro, and the Black Panthers of neighboring Oakland. Some of the city’s most famous residents also make appearances: Robin Williams, The Grateful Dead, Angela Davis, Janis Joplin, Sylvester, and Allen Ginsberg, among others. This book features hundreds of newly found images from dozens of archives including museums, universities, libraries, galleries, private collections, and historical societies, from 19th-century daguerreotypes to mid-century Kodachromes to 21st-century digital pictures. Master photographers include, among others: Stephen Shore, Imogen Cunningham, Fred Lyon, Steve Schapiro, Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Albert Watson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton, Fred Herzog, Ansel Adams, Jim Marshall, and many local shooters. Also includes introductory essays and captions by Bay Area–based author Richie Unterberger and a “Best of San Francisco” books, music, and movies section and biographies of the photographers. Tony Bennett famously sang, “I left my heart in San Francisco,” and this meticulously researched and conceived portrait will equally inspire and make you fall in love with the spirit of the City by the Bay.

The San Francisco History Center is pleased to present author and historian Abigail Markwyn speaking about Spectacle, Identity, and Citizen...

San Francisco's great old Sutro Baths was a huge structure with several enormous swimming pools, viewing galleries, museums and more, right next to the Golden Gate.

San Francisco's Chinatown has a long and rather notorious history: slave markets, tong wars, opium dens. See historical photos, and those same streets today.

These are the photographs that tell the story of San Francisco.

a study of san francisco architecture shot on 120 film

Take the full tour of San Francisco's Mission District Murals. This guide (with map) gives you history, context and lots of eye candy.

From the middle of the destruction after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, accounts of the damage were published in the city's newspaper the next morning.

A deep dive into the stories behind San Francisco neighborhood names provides interesting...

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

In this series of carefully photoshopped images, photographer Shawn Clover created composite photographs that blend historical scenes from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and his own present-day captures of the same locations. A number of other artists have created similar images, most notably Sergey Larenkov’s Ghosts of WWII, but Clover really seems to have put in extreme amounts of effort in trying to determine how each photograph precisely overlaps the other, resulting in some fascinating interactions between past and present. More

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These fascinating historical sites will take you back in time. If you’re a history lover living in the Bay Area, you’ll know that it’s full of amazing stories that have fallen through the cracks over time. Although many historic sites have been built over or otherwise erased from the city’s landscape, some of these gems […]

Find a list of the best 15 free museums in the SF Bay Area. These attractions are always free to visit and offer details about local history, art, and more.

Though San Francisco is a world-class city, for locals it can feel more like a loose affiliation of small towns strewn over the hills, threaded together with gravity-straining streets, an...

From an article published on SFGATE a few years ago, the 1915 Panama-Pacific...

Take a visual tour of San Francisco's 15 prettiest outdoor spots.

From Fred Lyon's San Francisco: Portrait of a City 1940 - 1960.

Come and check out all of the art deco destinations rich with history all over San Francisco.

Before the City of San Francisco voted to stop burials within city limits in 1900, there were at least 30 cemeteries in use or abandoned here.

This guide to North Beach, San Francisco, is a local's account of North Beach's strange history, its charm and amazing Italian food. #NorthBeach #SanFrancisco

Find a list of the best 15 free museums in the SF Bay Area. These attractions are always free to visit and offer details about local history, art, and more.