The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

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

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

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

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

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

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.