The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

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

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

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

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

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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