The tour takes 2 hours and it covers most of downtown San Francisco: Union Square, Chinatown, and North Beach. San Francisco has a curious past. It started out as a town that didn’t even need a jail cell, but was a few years later overrun by people who came to look for gold. Not only hard-working miners found their way to the booming City by the Bay, but also people with more dubious intentions. They made the once quiet and safe town into one of the wildest places of the Wild West, with shootings, kidnappings, murders and the most ingenious scams ever. The Vice Tour of Free SF Tour will dive into the craziest crime stories from San Francisco history, like a battle over eggs, the most polite bandit in the history of crime, why San Francisco had a street named after a fake person and how one of the biggest tourist attractions in the city was build with stolen money. Join us at 6 pm. at Union Square!

We visit Union Square, Maiden Lane, Wells Fargo Museum, Bank of California,  Sentinel Building, Coppola Tower, and many more non-touristic points along the way.

The tour ends in North Beach at Vallejo and Powell streets.

Price: Pay-as-you-wish to the guide. All guides are volunteers and not paid by the City Government or any other institution. We appreciate your donations to keep this tour running.