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

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

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

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

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.