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The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The largest drain hole in the world.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

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

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

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

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.