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These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

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

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

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

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

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

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

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.