This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath 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.

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

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

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

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

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

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

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

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.