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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.