The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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.

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

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

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

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.