The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.