Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

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

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

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