A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

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

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

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.