![]() Parking is available at Pier 39 Garage, located directly across the street from the entrance plaza. Or watch your kiddo delight in practicing for his next recital - on foot.ĭetails: Pier 39 is located at Beach Street and The Embarcadero in San Francisco. When you walk across the motion sensor beam, it plays the note.ĭon’t miss: The chance to go back and forth the entire three-octave length with a partner. They were installed in 2013 and work much the same way: Each stair has a motion sensor that corresponds to a piano note. Remember Tom Hanks rocking the famous piano keyboard in the movie “Big”? The stairs at Pier 39 were created by the same artist: Remo Saraceni. 4 Play musical stairs The musical stairs at Pier 39 were created by the same artist that made them for Tom Hanks’ movie, “Big.” (Pier 39) Next stop? Pier 1.5, next to the delicious La Mar Cebicheria Peruana restaurant and just steps from the Ferry Building.ĭetails: It’s $5-$10 (cash only) for hop-on, hop-off, round-trip service /sanfranciscowatertaxi. Grab chowder on Fisherman’s Wharf then head for the dock, marked with a big yellow water taxi sign, next to Hyde Street Pier. (Jackie Burrell/Bay Area News Group)ĭon’t miss: The city has several water taxi stands - and they’re next to fun restaurants. Hop aboard the adorable San Francisco Lil’ Water Taxi at Pier 1.5. Call Captain Biz - the phone number’s on the taxi-stand sign - and she’ll come pick you up. The boat holds up to 18 people and makes the rounds between piers, offering a little aquatic excitement along with stellar bay views. But who knew there were water taxis in San Francisco? Or that they’d be so darn cute? If Pixar designed water taxis, they’d look exactly like this: a bright yellow Lil’ Water Taxi boat with checkered trim that putt-putts along the waterfront. Downtown tours depart from Union Square on Thursdays and Saturdays. For more travel coverage from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyondĭetails: Waterfront tours ($20 per person) depart from the Ferry Building on Sunday mornings. Embrace the touristy vibe and grab clam chowder in one of those famous sourdough bowls on Fisherman’s Wharf or at Capurro’s, the Sicilian restaurant next to Hyde Street Pier. Joseph Amster, Norton’s alter ego, does historic downtown tours, as well. ![]() Reserve your adventure (the rooms are $400 each) at find the entrance at 3362 Palace Drive, which loops behind the Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco.ĭon’t miss: The tour ends at Fisherman’s Wharf. Wear sneakers and comfortable clothes long pants are advised for the Roosevelt room. There’s a brand new Thomas Edison Escape Room, as well as a Roosevelt Escape Room that opened last year with hidden passages, mysterious puzzles, wartime codes and behind-the-scenes technical wizardry that propels the game to spectacular levels.ĭetails: The Houdini and Roosevelt rooms can be played with six to 10 friends, ages 16 and up the Edison room holds up to eight. (Palace Games)ĭon’t miss: It’s not just Houdini. Anything could be a clue in Teddy Roosevelt’s parlor, as teams untangle puzzles and try to escape. Now you, too, can test your wits in the Great Houdini Escape Room - a series of elaborately decorated rooms, filled with clever challenges, secret panels and fiendishly difficult puzzles, tucked deep inside the iconic building. That was all the inspiration Palace Games needed. ![]() ![]() Legend has it that Houdini built the world’s first contraption-filled “escape room” there as part of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition hoopla. Who knew you could channel your inner escape artist - and hang with Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, John Philip Sousa and the rest of the gang - at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts? Here are 12 incredibly cool things you’ve probably never heard of, from an alchemy museum in San Jose to a submarine wine-tasting room on Treasure Island, an arctic-blast freezer in Oakland and the chance to tour San Francisco with a 19th-century emperor. We did, anyway - and it turns out we were delightfully wrong. If you’re a longtime Bay Area-ite, you might have thought you’d discovered everything that was discoverable to do around here.
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