A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

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

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

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

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.