This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

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

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

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

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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