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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

Half of a house.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

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

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

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

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.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.