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

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.