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

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

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

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.

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

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