A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

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