Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

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

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

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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.