Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

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

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

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

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

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

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

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.