Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito, or take Muni's 76 bus across the bridge to Fort Cronkhite for breathtaking views of The City. Billed as the largest new American museum of the decade, San Franciscans are calling this tourist attraction an instant landmark. For architecture mavens, you'll need an entire day to take in this extravaganza that Mario Botta designed. His black and white topped cylinder-like structure in the center is the heart of the museum. Spend time in the atrium that spotlights an expanse of alternating black and gray granite.
White walls contrast against the gray, giving the space an art deco feeling.
If it has a familiar look to world travelers, that s because the artist designed it to resemble a European plaza, so it's roomy yet inviting. Today the curvaceous crests can be reached by following Market Street, a main thoroughfare that circles up to Portola Drive, and leads you to one of the City's most cherished landmarks. Once you twirl your way up and arrive at Twin Peaks, providing you have the weather gods on your side, you'll see beyond the fog. When you arrive, words like breathtaking and spectacular will come to mind, although you'll find them inadequate when looking down on San Francisco, America's favorite city. In just one visit to Twin Peaks you'll feel you have glimpsed heaven San Francisco style, including the earth and the stars.