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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

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