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Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

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

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.