These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

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

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

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

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

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.