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

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

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

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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

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

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

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

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

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

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

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

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.