There are more than one million books in the Civic Center, along with 400 electronic work stations and a children's discovery center.

This is the oldest art school in the West, and the alma mater of some of the nation's most acclaimed artists.

The California Academy of Sciences is a world-class scientific and cultural institution based in San Francisco. The Academy's new facility in Golden Gate Park houses an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum and a 4-story rain forest all under one living roof. The new facility is also home to the Academy's staff of world-class scientists, an education department that provides a wide range of student and teacher services, and an extensive science library with over 20 million specimens and artifacts.

This beautiful, impressive modern structure opened in 1996 and contains seven stories of books and exhibits.

Want to dig up old city records for the heck of it? Check the History Room out. It's free.