Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

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

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

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

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

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

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An easy-to-reach, century-old shipwreck in shallow and crystal clear waters.

This life-sized effigy commemorates the dedicated abolitionist and social reformer.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.