Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.