A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

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

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

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

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.