Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

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

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

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

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

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

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

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