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

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

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

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

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.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

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

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

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

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

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

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

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

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

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

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.