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Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

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

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

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

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

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.