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San Francisco counts 24 notable places in this snapshot — museums, landmarks and points of interest surfaced from OpenStreetMap. That places it 1st of 5 cities in North America. The most common label on the list is memorial, on 8 of the 24 entries.

Notable places 24 snapshot 2026-09-28
Notable places24
Rank1 / 5in North America
vs. median1.00×North America median
Place types4distinct categories

What the numbers say

San Francisco accounts for 24 notable places listed on OpenStreetMap in this cycle, all of them on September 28, 2026. Every row below is a record as its source published it — no estimate, no interpolation, and nothing carried over from a previous run.

That places San Francisco 1 of 5 among North America, which is within a rounding error of the median for that group.

The most recent entries are WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall, Cable Car Turntable (Powell & Market), California Bell. This page is a view of public data and not a substitute for it — check the original before acting on any row.

The list, read out

Memorials account for 8 of the 24: California Bell, Sun Yat-sen's statue, Chinese-American World War Memorial, Ohlone Indian Memorial, Martin Luther King, The Birthplace of a Great City, First Public School in California and William Alexander Leidesdorff. Museums account for 8 of the 24: WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gallery, Chinese Historical Society of America, California Historical Society Museum & Bookstore, Museum of the African Diaspora, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and International Art Museum of America. Attractions account for 7 of the 24: Cable Car Turntable (Powell & Market), Dragon Gate, California and Powell streets, Bank of Canton (former Chinese Telephone Exchange), Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, Salesforce Park Cable Car and Bayside History Walk. Footway accounts for 1 of the 24: Greenwich Steps. Alphabetically the register runs from Bank of Canton (former Chinese Telephone Exchange) to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gallery.

That is 4 place types across 24 listings for San Francisco. Memorials are the largest group at 8, footway the smallest at 1 — the mix is the map speaking, not this page: a type is whatever the OpenStreetMap record says it is. One label appears exactly once — footway (Greenwich Steps).

The addresses OpenStreetMap files these places under touch 22 distinct localities, and they cluster: Mission Street holds 2 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gallery and Ohlone Indian Memorial) and Quincy Street holds 2 (Sun Yat-sen's statue and Chinese-American World War Memorial), while 20 localities carry one entry each — a rough sketch of where San Francisco keeps its notable ground.

Places worth knowing about in San Francisco

24 places · snapshot of 2026-09-28 · sourced from OpenStreetMap

San Francisco notable places
PlaceLocality
museum WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall 809, Sacramento Street
attraction Cable Car Turntable (Powell & Market) Powell Street, Union Square
memorial California Bell 3rd Street, South of Market
museum Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gallery Mission Street, South of Market
attraction Dragon Gate 401, Grant Avenue
memorial Sun Yat-sen's statue Quincy Street, Chinatown
museum Chinese Historical Society of America 965, Clay Street
attraction California and Powell streets California Street, Chinatown
memorial Chinese-American World War Memorial Quincy Street, Chinatown
museum California Historical Society Museum & Bookstore 678, Mission Street
attraction Bank of Canton (former Chinese Telephone Exchange) Washington Street, Chinatown
memorial Ohlone Indian Memorial Mission Street, South of Market
museum Museum of the African Diaspora 685, Mission Street
attraction Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory 56, Ross Alley
memorial Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Howard Street
museum Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco 345, Montgomery Street
attraction Salesforce Park Cable Car 425, Mission Street
memorial The Birthplace of a Great City Grant Avenue, Chinatown
museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151, 3rd Street
attraction Bayside History Walk Pier 3 promenade, Financial District
memorial First Public School in California Portsmouth Square, Chinatown
museum International Art Museum of America 1025, Market Street
footway Greenwich Steps Telegraph Hill, North Beach
memorial William Alexander Leidesdorff Leidesdorff Street, Union Square

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  8. Berlin, GermanyEurope24

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