27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

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

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.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

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