The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.