San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

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

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

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

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

A celebration of solstice followed by a fiery purging of evils.