A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

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

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

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

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

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

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

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

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

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

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.