One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

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

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

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

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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