With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

Home to items never before seen by the public.