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Ghirardelli Square Parent rating: Location: 900 North Point Street, San Francisco, CA A complex of old brick 19th-century factory and mill buildings in Fisherman's Wharf, Ghirar...
Jelly Belly Candy Company Factory Tour Parent rating: Location: One Jelly Belly Lane, Fairfield, CA At this working factory, way out in Fairfield, you'll find out just how this venerable candy maker - inventor of the gourmet jelly bean - gets so much flavor into such a small package. And though it m...
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...
Musee Mecanique Parent rating: Location: Pier 45, Shed A, San Francisco, CA Musee Mecanique is a fascinating museum brimming with coin-operated old carnival attractions, such as marionettes, player pianos, and a scary mechanical laughing lady called Laughing Sal. <...
Pier 39 Parent rating: Location: Beach Street and The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA What we like best about Pier 39 is the colony of blustery, slippery California sea lions who have made this tourist zone an outpost. Each winter, the population can increase up to 900 sea lions...
SF/SPCA: Maddie's Pet Adoption Center Parent rating: Location: 250 Florida, San Francisco, CA The SF/SPCA's Maddie's Pet Adoption Center is a unique animal shelter that looks more like an apartment building. It houses 21 "doggie apartments" and 67 "kitty lofts," and a nicer shelter layo...
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...
Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company Parent rating: Location: 56 Ross Alley, San Francisco, CA Getting to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company may be half the fun, as you wander through Chinatown, past the tourist shops, and down an alley that time forgot. In the tiny old-fash...
California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium Parent rating: Location: 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA Topped with a living roof, the newly rebuilt California Academy of Sciences is home to an aquarium, planetarium, and natural history museum. The aquarium, with an estimated 38,...
Exploratorium Parent rating: Location: 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco, CA The winner of our 2008 Parents' Picks quest to find the best Playspace/Partyspace for Big Kids in the Bay Ar...
Children's Fairyland Parent rating: Location: 699 Bellevue Ave, Oakland, CA Children's Fairyland features rides, puppet shows, children's theater performances, farm animals, arts and crafts, talking storybooks, plus thirty storybook sets. It's the perfect place for the...
Twin Peaks Parent rating: Location: Twin Peaks Boulevard, San Francisco, CA Up here, next to a cluster of radio towers, may be the mother of all city views - or at least a serious contender for the prize. It's fun to stand here and try to pick out familiar sites in to...
Ferry Building Parent rating: Location: The Embarcadero at Market Street, San Francisco, CA Originally built in 1898, the Ferry Building survived both the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes but was nearly done in by bad renovations in the 1950s and subsequent neglect. What was once a beacon for tens ...
North Shattuck Avenue Parent rating: Location: 1400-1700 Shattuck, Berkeley, CA North Shattuck Avenue, also known as Gourmet Ghetto, in Berkeley is home to many incredible restaurants and shops, as well as the host of the annual Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival.
Precita Eyes Mural Center Parent rating: Location: 2981 24th Street, San Francisco, CA Big, colorful murals pulse throughout the Mission District and discovering one around a bend is one of the joys of walking there. The best known is the group in little Balmy Alley (24th St. bet...

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