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.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

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

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

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

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

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

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.