Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.

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

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

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

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

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

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

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

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

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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