Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in San Francisco
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in San Francisco? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Audium: Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space, Doggie Diner Head, St. Francis of the Guns and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of San Francisco they'd never find on their own.
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Audium: Theatre of Sound-Sculptured Space
A windowless theater wired with 176-plus speakers where founder Stan Shaff composes 'sound sculptures' that m…
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Doggie Diner Head
A grinning fiberglass dachshund head in a chef's hat and bow tie — the sole survivor of roughly thirty identi…
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St. Francis of the Guns
A nearly 9-foot bronze St. Francis with arms flung open, cast by sculptor Beniamino Bufano in 1968 from 1,968…
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Seward Street Slides
Two steep concrete slides poured into a hillside in 1973 after a 14-year-old neighborhood girl, Kim Clark, ta…
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Albany Bulb
A former construction-debris landfill jutting into the Bay became an unsanctioned outdoor gallery: Mad Marc's…
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Alchemy Springs & Sauna Garden
A half-built social bathhouse that opened its 2,500-square-foot sauna garden to the public while the rest of…