The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Hiding in plane sight.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Half of a house.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

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

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

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

In a city of wooden houses, this watchtower was vital for early fire detection.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.