San Francisco

"Everybody's Favorite City"

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San Francisco CBI*
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YOUR SCORE*
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Epiphany
46% 
Mentoring
62% 
Self Fulfillment
46% 
Elegance
69% 
Originality
69% 
Revelation
46% 
Grandeur
62% 
Selfhood
69% 
Chronicle
69% 
Kinship
100% 
Nature
46% 
Surety
69% 
Synergy
62% 
Dynamism
54% 
Sensation
62% 

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Epiphany

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Principal Features

Mission Dolores
Grace Cathedral
Temple Emanu-El

Honorable Mentions

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Tin How Temple
Old St. Mary's Cathedral

Mentoring

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Principal Features

De Young Museum
Asian Art Museum
SFMOMA

Honorable Mentions

University of California at San Francisco
Legion of Honor Museum

Self-Fulfillment

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Principal Features

SF Opera, Ballet, and Symphony
American Conservatory Theater
City Lights Bookstore

Honorable Mentions

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Walt Disney Family Museum

Elegance

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Principal Features

Civic Center, Especially City Hall
Conservatory of Flowers
Garden Court in the Sheraton Palace Hotel

Honorable Mentions

Coit Tower
Ferry Building
James Flood Building

Originality

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Principal Features

Lombard Street
Transamerica Building
New St. Mary's Cathedral

Honorable Mentions

Telegraph Hill Parrots
Farallon Islands

Revelation

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Principal Features

Academy of Sciences
Exploratorium
Randall Museum

Honorable Mentions

Children's Creativity Museum

Grandeur

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Principal Features

Golden Gate Bridge
Bay Bridge
Palace of Fine Arts

Honorable Mentions

Nob Hill (Huntington Park Surroundings)

Selfhood

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Principal Features

The Castro (Gay Mecca)
Union Square and Vicinity
Angel Island (Ellis Island West)

Honorable Mentions

Fort Mason
Fringe Festival

Chronicle

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Principal Features

The Presidio
Maritime National Historical Park
Haas-Lilienthal House

Honorable Mentions

California Historical Society Museum
Barbary Coast Trail
Chinese Historical Society Museum
Jackson Square

Kinship

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Principal Features

[Highly Distinctive] Neighborhoods -- Haight-Ashbury, North Beach, Japantown, Mission, etc.
Chinese New Years Parade
LGBT Pride Parade

Honorable Mentions

ContemporaryJewish Museum
Chinese Cultural Center
Italian American Museum
Mexican Museum
Museum of the African Diaspora

Nature

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Principal Features

Golden Gate Park including Japanese Tea Garden, Buffalo Herd, Etc.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA)
San Francisco Zoo

Honorable Mentions

Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove

Surety

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Principal Features

Alcatraz
Fleet Week Including the Blue Angels
Fort Point

Honorable Mentions

USS Pampanito
USS Jeremiah O'Brien

Synergy

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Principal Features

Chinatown
San Francisco Bay Tours (e.g., via Red and White Fleet)
Pier 39 Sea Lions

Honorable Mentions

Events at the Cow Palace

Dynamism

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Principal Features

Cable Cars
Historic Streetcars on Market Street and the Embarcadero
Hang Gliding at Fort Funston

Honorable Mentions

49 Mile Scenic Drive

Sensation

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Principal Features

Fisherman's Wharf
Panoramas -- From Twin Peaks, Coit Tower, the Top of the Mark, Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza, etc.
Ocean Beach

Honorable Mentions

Innumerable World-Class Restaurants [Most Restaurants Per Capita in the World]
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