San Francisco, California
The Old Ship Saloon
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
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San Francisco, California
Alvord Lake Bridge
An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.
San Francisco, California
Faery Door
San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco, California
Lotta's Fountain
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco Center for the Book
This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.
San Francisco, California
Three Gems
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
San Francisco, California
Encryption Lava Lamps
The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.
San Francisco, California
450 Sutter Street
Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.
San Francisco, California
The Shipwrecks at Land's End
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
San Francisco, California
Portals of the Past
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
San Francisco, California
Fort Miley Batteries
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
Aquatic Park Tombstones
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
San Francisco, California
Land’s End Octagon House
The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
Paxton Gate
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
San Francisco, California
Musée Mécanique
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
The Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
San Francisco, California
The Tonga Room
Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
San Francisco, California
Ruins of the Sutro Baths
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
Mescaline Grove
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
San Francisco, California
Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
San Francisco, California
Esmeralda Slide Park
A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.
San Francisco, California
Garden of Fragrance
Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.
San Francisco, California
Institute of Illegal Images
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
San Francisco, California
Peephole Cinema
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
