A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

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

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

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

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

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

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

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

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

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

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

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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

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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Originally the home of chewing gum mogul William Wrigely Jr, it is now the official offices of the Tournament of Roses.