Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

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

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

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

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

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

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.