The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

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

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

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

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

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

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

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

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

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

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