When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

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

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

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

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.