A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

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

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.