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Filoli Parent rating: Location: 86 Canada Road, Redwood City, CA This beautiful 16-acre estate in Woodside may impress you more than it does your children. But the gardens are so lovely your children just may fall under their spell. And if they don't, mention that ...
Golden Gate Bridge Parent rating: Location: San Francisco, CA You may be among those who feel you haven't really been to San Francisco until you've crossed the bridge, one of the world's most celebrated. If so, we recommend driving. Walking the bridge's e...
Liberty Ship Jeremiah O'Brien Parent rating: Location: Pier 45, San Francisco, CA The Bay Area was once the site of a great deal of ship building activity. A good two-thirds of the more than 2,710 Liberty Ships built during World War II were made here. As chance would have it, the ...
Japanese Tea Garden Parent rating: Location: Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA If it's serenity you're looking for, you probably won't find it here. These meticulously designed gardens, orginally built for the 1904 Mid-Winter Fair, are very popular and draw crowds. But qu...
USS Hornet Museum Parent rating: Location: Pier 3, Alameda Point, Alameda, CA The aircraft carrier USS Hornet participated in two of the greatest events of the 20th century - World War II and the Apollo 11 manned space mission. Now peacefully moored at historic...
Cable Cars Parent rating: Location: San Francisco, CA This is the kind of historic landmark a kid can appreciate: One that moves, makes loud noises, and can be mildly terrifying on a steep descent. Once upon a time, many major American cities, in...
Fort Point Parent rating: Location: Marine Drive, San Francisco, CA Situated beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, Fort Point is a pristine example of a mid-19t...
Ghost Hunt Parent rating: Location: 1590 Sutter, San Francisco, CA Meet some of the city's most notorious ghosts on the one and only San Francisco Ghost Hunt. Guide John Fassbinder will take you on a tour of haunted places, and spin chilling ghost stories abou...
Coit Tower Parent rating: Location: Kearny St., San Francisco, CA Built in 1933 in honor of the city's firemen, this 210-foot-high observation tower is thought by many to be fashioned after a firehose. The resemblance is apparently accidental but the myth persists i...
Kinetic Steam Works Parent rating: Location: 2525 Mandela Parkway, Oakland, CA Kinetic Steam Works is a Bay Area collective dedicated to steam-powered kinetic art.
Alcatraz Island Parent rating: Location: Boats leave from Pier 31/33, San Francisco, CA Heading out to the island is one of the more exhilarating ways in town to celebrate a sunny day. It's an excursion into history, and you get to ride there on a boat. The island was discovere...
Presidio of San Francisco Parent rating: Location: San Francisco, CA This was the Spaniards' first outpost when they claimed the San Francisco Bay for themselves in 1776. Two centuries later in 1994, the 1,500 acre Presidio was converted from the oldest active m...
Maritime Park & Hyde Street Pier Parent rating: Location: 2905 Hyde, San Francisco, CA The Maritime Park has two locations and one mission: to interpret the Maritime History of the West Coast. The Maritime Museum, on Beach Street, does so in a traditional way, hosting indoor exhibits th...
The Cliff House Parent rating: Location: 1090 Point Lobos Avenue, San Francisco, CA The colorful history of the Cliff House, a complex including two restaurants, two cocktail lounges and a gift store, involves a string of millionaire owners, each with grand visions for this seaside a...
Roaring Camp Railroads Parent rating: Location: P.O. Box G-1, Felton, CA Roaring Camp operates two historic railroads. The beach trains travel through Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, down the scenic San Lorenzo River Gorge, across a 1909 steel tru...

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