11 Most Exclusive Private Clubs in America

8. Bohemian Club

Location: San Francisco

Founded in: 1872

Unlike most clubs on our list, the Bohemian Club isn’t a place of business. In fact, it is highly frowned upon, in line with the club motto “Weaving spiders come not here”. Dedicated to the pleasure of its members, the club has two location. The main clubhouse is located in downtown San Francisco, offering an urban retreat. It also has another clubhouse, called Bohemian Grove in Sonora County, where members gather once a year for a two-week retreat and forget all their worries of everyday life. We’ll leave it up to readers’ imagination to envision the shenanigans some of the world’s wealthiest people come up with during a two-week long camp in a secluded location. Notable members include George H. W. Bush, William Randolph Hearst, Herbert Hoover, Ambrose Bierce, Henry Kissinger and many others.