Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

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

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Russian history in San Francisco.

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