San Francisco: Piers and Boardwalks
Places and attractions in the Piers and boardwalks category
Categories
- Museum
- Park
- Nightlife
- Church
- Theater
- Concerts and shows
- Street
- Specialty museum
- Art museum
- Art gallery
- Historical place
- Shopping
- Dancing
- History museum
- Neighbourhood
- Monuments and statues
- Sacred and religious sites
- View point
- Shopping centre
- Playground
- Skyscraper
- Tower
- Music venue
- Lighthouse
- Library
- Gothic Revival architecture
- Cinema
- Garden
- Memorial
- Vernacular architecture
- Architecture
- Natural attraction
- Science museum
- Temple
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Bookshop
- Postmodern architecture
- Trail
- Square
- Forts and castles
- Performing arts
- Entertainment
- Boat or ferry
- Universities and schools
- Restaurant
- Island
- Lake
- Beach
- Concert hall
- Nature
- Sculpture
- Hiking trail
- Hiking
- Nature and wildlife
- Game and entertainment center
- Ship
- Golf
- Event space
- Piers and boardwalks
- Music and shows
- Synagogue
- Bars and clubs
- Modernist architecture
- Entertainment district
- Victorian architecture
- Neo-renaissance architecture
- Romanesque architecture
- Queen Anne architecture
- Arenas and stadiums
- Tunnel
Wax Museum at Fishermans Wharf
The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, was an attraction with over 270 wax figures. Originator Thomas Fong opened the museum in 1963 after seeing the wax figures at the Seattle World's Fair and it was run by the Fong Family until its closure in 2013. It has attracted over 400,000 visitors a year.
Pier 26
The existing historic Pier 26 in San Francisco is located on the Embarcadero with its entrance directly under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, several blocks southeast of the Ferry Building.
Torpedo Wharf
Torpedo Wharf is a wharf in the Presidio of San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California. The site has been a wharf since 1854, and earned its current name when the United States Army built a naval mine depot c. 1907–1909.
Pier 35
Pier 35 is a pier in The Embarcadero, San Francisco, USA, just to the east of Pier 39.