Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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 rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.