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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

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

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

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

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

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

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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