An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

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

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

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

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A large instrument played by the wind.