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

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

Russian history in San Francisco.

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

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

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

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