The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

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

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

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

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

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

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

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.