Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

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

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

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

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

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.