The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

A large instrument played by the wind.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

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

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

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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