An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.