A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

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

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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