Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

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

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

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

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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