San Francisco, California
Stern of the Niantic
The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.
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San Francisco, California
The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.
San Francisco, California
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, California
A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.
San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
San Francisco, California
In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.
San Francisco, California
A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.
San Francisco, California
One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.
San Francisco, California
An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.
San Francisco, California
The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.
San Francisco, California
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
San Francisco, California
Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.
San Francisco, California
The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.
San Francisco, California
This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.
San Francisco, California
Half of a house.
San Francisco, California
27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.
San Francisco, California
A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.