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

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

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

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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

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

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

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

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

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