San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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