A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Half of a house.

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

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

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

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

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

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