Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

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

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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

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

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

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

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.