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

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

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

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

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

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Half of a house.

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

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

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

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.