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

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

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

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

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

Half of a house.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Antiques by the Bay.

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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.