A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

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