Ripley’s Believe it or Not
Ripley’s Believe it or Not is a museum in San Francisco, Bay Area, California which is located on Jefferson Street. Ripley’s Believe it or Not is situated nearby to the amusement arcade Great Big Game Show Fisherman’s Wharf, as well as near the art gallery ZK Gallery.- Type: Museum
- Address: 175 Jefferson Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Musée Mécanique and USS Pampanito.
Musée Mécanique
Amusement arcade
Photo: Piotrus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Musée Mécanique is a for-profit interactive museum of 20th-century penny arcade games and artifacts, located at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. With over 300 mechanical machines, it is one of the world's largest privately owned collections. Musée Mécanique is situated 470 feet north of Ripley’s Believe it or Not.
USS Pampanito
Museum
Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.
USS Pampanito is a Balao-class submarine built for the United States Navy during World War II; it is the third U.S. Navy vessel named for the pompano fish. USS Pampanito is situated 770 feet north of Ripley’s Believe it or Not.
SkyStar Wheel
Ferris wheel
SkyStar Wheel is a 150-foot-tall, 137-foot-diameter traveling observation wheel located in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf since November 13, 2023. It has previously operated in San Francisco's Music Concourse, Cincinnati's The Banks, Louisville's Waterfront Park, and Norfolk. SkyStar Wheel is situated 640 feet northeast of Ripley’s Believe it or Not.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fisherman’s Wharf and Russian Hill.
Fisherman’s Wharf
Photo: Miskatonic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Francisco's most popular destination among travelers, Fisherman's Wharf is the tourist center of the city. Its historic waterfront, once the hub of the city's fishing fleet, is still famous for the depth and variety of its harvest and for having some of the best seafood restaurants in the city, with scenic vistas over San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island.
Russian Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: BDS2006, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Russian Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is named after one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills".
North Beach
Quarter
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill. The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically been home to a large Italian American population, largely from Northern Italy.
Ripley’s Believe it or Not
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.80798° or 37° 48′ 29″ northLongitude
-122.41542° or 122° 24′ 56″ westHeight
43 feet (13 metres)Open location code
849VRH5M+5ROpenStreetMap ID
way 288473102OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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