"The center was not holding." So begins Joan Didion's cutting critique of San Francisco. The essayist wrote those words in 1967 at the start of a piece excoriating the city's hippie counterculture.

Known as Heroes Grove, the site commemorates the men and women of San Francisco who died in World War I. The granite monument ...

This isn't the first time the city has suggested doing away with the local landmark. A 1992 report from the San Francisco Examiner said that the fountain became a point a controversy almost as ...

The park encompasses multiple historic sites, monuments, multiple trails and ... views of the Golden Gate Bridge and other San Francisco landmarks. Be sure to check out the historic ruins of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Two San Francisco landmarks have just been named among ... the world during a year-long period. The religious monument Angkor Wat in Cambodia came in first place for 2015.

In the lead-up to Litquake, the annual city-wide literary festival that kicks off this Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle ... Places points out real life monuments like Allen Ginsburg’s ...

Donald Harvey crouches at the corner of Post and Taylor in San Francisco with a well-worn ... when I found the monolith listed as a historical landmark on a routine scroll through Google Maps ...

17 of the 50 most photographed landmarks in the United States and Canada are located in California. From the Bay Area all the way down to San Diego, the list includes monuments, parks, bridges ...

Washington has its Monument. Silicon Valley wants its own universally recognized landmark, something that ... setting at the southern edge of San Francisco Bay is less than memorable ...