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

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

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

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

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.