[ubertaco]

As someone who has been to San Francisco enough to hate it there (which doesn't take that long, really), I still think a couple of things are worth seeing:

* Land's End (just outside the city) is beautiful, and worth a visit

* The Palace of Fine Arts Theater (not a theater, rather a sort of "monument" made to look like old-world ruins) is very pleasant, and in a pretty area.

* I've heard the Presidio in general is really nice, but I haven't gotten a chance to go there.

After that, I recommend hopping in a car, and driving away from San Francisco along the Pacific Coast Highway. You've seen the best parts, and hopefully avoided the various near-stabbings or human-excrement-piled sidewalks that are emblematic of the city's current state. It's basically a corporate monument to income inequality, on its way to being transformed into some version of an 80s-future dystopia.

[ghaff]

I’d probably add Telegraph Hill and Alcatraz. But, yeah, mostly the Northwest of the city. Unless you’re really into architecture I’d avoid downtown and surrounding except for maybe the Ferry Building.