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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

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

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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