A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

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

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.