A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

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

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

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

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

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

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

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.