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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

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

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.