Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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