A white oak with property rights.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

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

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

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

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

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.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

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

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

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.