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This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Half of a house.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.