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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.