Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

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

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

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

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

Half of a house.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.