This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.