A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A unique and poignant sidewalk mural commemorates the deaths of two striking workers.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

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

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.