Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.