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A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

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

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

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

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.