San Francisco, California
Three Gems
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
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San Francisco, California
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
San Francisco, California
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
San Francisco, California
The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.
San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
San Francisco, California
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
San Francisco, California
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.
San Francisco, California
A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
San Francisco, California
Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
San Francisco, California
Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.
San Francisco, California
There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.