An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

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

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

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

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

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

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

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

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.