An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

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

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

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

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Antiques by the Bay.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.