The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.