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Museum of Exotica

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.
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San Francisco, California

Camera Obscura & Holograph Collection

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.
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San Francisco, California

The Shipwrecks at Land's End

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
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San Francisco, California

Land’s End Octagon House

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.
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San Francisco, California

Fort Miley Batteries

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
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San Francisco, California

Labyrinth at Land’s End

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.
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San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Model Yacht Club

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.
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San Francisco, California

Urbano Sundial

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

Golden Gate Park Horseshoe Pitch

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.
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San Francisco, California

Secret Tiled Staircase

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

Cayuga Park

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

Battery Chamberlin

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.
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San Francisco, California

Three Gems

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
San Francisco, California

Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.
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San Francisco, California

Site of the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition

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

Monarch the Bear

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

John McLaren Statue

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.
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San Francisco, California

Alvord Lake Bridge

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.
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San Francisco, California

San Francisco Columbarium

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
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San Francisco, California

The "Center" of San Francisco Monument

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

The Wave Organ

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
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San Quentin, California

San Quentin Prison Gift Shop

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.
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San Francisco, California

Bourn Mansion

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.
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San Francisco, California

Spreckels Mansion

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.
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