Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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