A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

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

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

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.