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

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

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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.