A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

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

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

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

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.