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

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

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

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.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

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

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

Half of a house.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

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