A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.