The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

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

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.