Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

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

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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