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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

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

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.