This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

In the 19th century, this pit housed a fully grown black bear for the entertainment of visitors. Today there is a sculpture in tribute to the poor creature.

Seemingly straight out of a fairy tale, a steel chair sits on a tiny island only accessible by stepping stones.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

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

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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