A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

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

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

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

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

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.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.