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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.