A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

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

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

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

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

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

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Half of a house.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

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

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.