Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.