This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

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

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.