Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.