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Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

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

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

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

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.