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

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

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

Half of a house.

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

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.