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

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

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

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

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

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

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

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Half of a house.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

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

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.