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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.