A monument dedicated to the civil uprisings that took place during the Pots and Pans Revolution.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

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

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.