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

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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.