Learn the history of Chinese culture in San Francisco during the heart of the Gold Rush as well as the impact of the 1906 earthquake on Chinatown and the ingenuity that allowed them to survive and thrive.

See the stunning architecture and artistic details of Chinatown’s Waverly Place while learning about SF’s first Chinese madam and seeing a neighborhood inspired and plagued by a long history of gang wars.

Experience the first buildings of east-meets-west architecture in California and learn how these came to stand under the shadow of the elite mansions on the hill.

Visit infamous City Lights Booksellers; immersed in art, culture, and controversy as the original home of free-lovism and a public obscenity trial. Learn how the Beats movement challenged 1950s American ideals.

Experience this famous, art-filled San Francisco watering hole central to the Beatnik movement as it challenged 1950s American ideals with free-lovism and drug-encouraged enlightenment.

Stand in the art-ladden Jack Kerouac Alley that today is still home to cutting edge performances. Hear the stories of how Kerouac inspired musicians of the 1960s. Experience the notorious watering holes like Vesuvio where Beats wrote and smoked and wrote and drank and wrote.