The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

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

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

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

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

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

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

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

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