A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

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

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

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

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.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

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

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

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