20 . NEIGHBORHOODS | Never the same. Always San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO NEIGHBORHOODS 8 16 13 4 15 11 19 10 6 3 7 5 17 9 CASTRO/ NOE VALLEY 2 17 Find outdoor cafes, stately Victorian homes, a historic theater and bustling bars in the “gay capital of the world.” 12 1 BAY VIEW Home of the oldest opera house in San Francisco, this area is also an incubator for the city’s creative scene — the old Hunters Point shipyard houses America’s largest artists’ colony. sftravel.com