A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

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

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

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

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.