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

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

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

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

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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