San Francisco, California
Heineman Building
This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.
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San Francisco, California
This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.
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Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.
San Francisco, California
Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.
San Francisco, California
The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.
San Francisco, California
The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.
San Francisco, California
An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.
San Francisco, California
One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.
San Francisco, California
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
San Francisco, California
Half of a house.
San Francisco, California
27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.
San Francisco, California
One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.
San Francisco, California
A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.
San Francisco, California
Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.
San Francisco, California
A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
San Francisco, California
Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.
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The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.
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This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.
San Francisco, California
The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.
San Francisco, California
This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.
San Francisco, California
These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.
San Francisco, California
This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.