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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Russian history in San Francisco.

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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

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

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Half of a house.