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Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

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

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

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

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

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

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