This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

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

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

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Russian history in San Francisco.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.