This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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 Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

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