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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

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

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