This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

Russian history in San Francisco.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

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

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

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

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.