Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

Half of a house.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

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

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

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

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.