Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

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

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

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

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

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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