Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.