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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

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.

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

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

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

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.