A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."

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

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

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.